Abstract

URAZAN, Carlos Felipe et al. Implications of geometry, land use and control devices that control the intersections on a continuous flow corridor. Tecnura [online]. 2013, vol.17, n.38, pp.53-67. ISSN 0123-921X.

The Autopista Norte Highway is a continuous traffic artery way in Bogotá city. According to Mobility Secretary, this main road could reach a traffic about eighteen thousand vehicles. On the urban sector the intersections with secondary roads exposes various particularities. The presence of reducing lanes, traffic lights and return ways near the intersection and considerable length of orejas de manzana, could affected the vehicle traffic flow. As a consequence, could rises the time required to allow the vehicle to move right, left and straight in the respective intersections. Therefore, the delay time phenomenon invites to planning new developments that could in-crease flow traffic performance in the respective vehicles movements: right, left and straight in the intersections. As result, it would reduce the time that the vehicles could spend in the intersections, especially at peak hour.

Keywords : autopista norte highway; road intersection; urban development; urban mobility.

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