Estimating Passenger Car Equivalent of Heavy Vehicles at Roundabout Entry Using Micro-Traffic Simulation

Passenger Car Equivalent (PCE) is a unit used to represent the impact of a large vehicle on a road by expressing it as the number of equivalent passenger vehicles. This paper focuses on estimating the PCE of various sized heavy vehicles in roundabouts with respect to different entry flow rates. A si...

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Main Authors: Robert Pajecki, Faisal Ahmed, Xiaobo Qu, Xinyi Zheng, Yanqun Yang, Said Easa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-06-01
Series:Frontiers in Built Environment
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fbuil.2019.00077/full