This manual provides a collection of state-of-the-art techniques for estimating the capacity and determining the level of service (LOS) for transportation facilities, including intersections and roadways as well as facilities for transit, bicycles, and pedestrians. This newest edition presents the best available techniques for determining capacity and LOS for transportation facilities at the start of the new millennium. However, this comprehensive manual does not establish a legal standard for highway design or construction. Originally published in 1950, the Highway Capacity Manual (HCM) was the first document to quantify the concept of capacity for transportation facilities. Translated into several languages, it has become the standard reference on capacity and LOS procedures, relied on by transportation analysts around the world.
Content:
Front Matter
• Preface
• Table of Contents
• Interactive Graphs Table (67) •Part I. Overview 1. Introduction
2. Capacity and Level-of-Service Concepts
3. Applications
4. Decision Making
• 5. Glossary
• 6. Symbols
•Part II. Concepts 7. Traffic Flow Parameters
8. Traffic Characteristics
9. Analytical Procedures Overview
10. Urban Street Concepts
11. Pedestrian and Bicycle Concepts
12. Highway Concepts
13. Freeway Concepts
14. Transit Concepts
•Part III. Methodologies 15. Urban Streets
16. Signalized Intersections
17. Unsignalized Intersections
18. Pedestrians
19. Bicycles
20. Two-Lane Highways
21. Multilane Highways
22. Freeway Facilities
23. Basic Freeway Segments
24. Freeway Weaving
25. Ramps and Ramp Junctions
26. Interchange Ramp Terminals
27. Transit
•Part IV. Corridor and Areawide Analyses 28. Assessment of Multiple Facilities
29. Corridor Analysis
30. Areawide Analysis
•Part V. Simulation and other Models 31. Simulation and other Models
Index