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Capacity and phase duration chapter 31signalized intersections. The highway capacity manual hcm is a publication of the transportation research board of the national academies of science it contains concepts, guidelines, and computational procedures for computing the capacity and quality of service of various highway facilities, such as freeways highways arterial roads roundabouts signalized intersections. Uninterrupted flow springer tracts on transportation and traffic roger. The method is applied to evaluate the sufficiency of intersection operations for varying levels of traffic demand, both undersaturated and oversaturated.
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