Getting Started

Tools
Most of the computations that we conduct in this case study will be with the Highway Capacity Manual, particularly those chapters that deal with intersection. This includes Chapter 16 (Signalized Intersections), and Chapter 17 (Unsignalized Intersections).

For some parts of the analyses, however, and for certain traffic conditions, we might also consider the use of other tools. There is a variety of software tools available that we could use, including macroscopic flow models that consider the progression of traffic platoons from one intersection to the next, and microscopic traffic models that consider both the movement of individual vehicles along an arterial and the details of actuated traffic controller operations.