A study on vehicle equivalency factor for expressway and two-lane highway in North Luzon

• Main Author: Acacio, Alan Anthony Lorenzo
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2005
• Subjects: Traffic estimation; Traffic surveys; Pavements > Testing; Equivalence relations (Set theory); Express highways; Civil Engineering; Transportation Engineering
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_masteral/3278; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/context/etd_masteral/article/10116/viewcontent/CDTG003882_P.pdf
• Institution: De La Salle University

Vehicle equivalency factors are used to account for the prevailing conditions of mixed traffic in the highway into that of ideal capacity. In particular, the presence of heavy vehicles and other low performance vehicles greatly affects the operations of the roadway and its capacity. This heavy vehic...