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Lateral Distribution Of Traffic On A Four-Lane And Six-Lane Section Of I 75 South Of Covington, Robert L. Lynch, Gary N. Hamby

Kentucky Transportation Center Research Report

With the increased construction of multilane highway facilities in the past few years, the need for establishing corresponding design and traffic operational criteria for these highways has resulted. This is especially true for rural, multilane facilities, since few of these highways are not, as yet, operating at a critical level of traffic service.

One area of traffic operational characteristics that has received very little attention in the past concerns the distribution of vehicles by lane on multilane highways. The capacity for these highways have been defined by the one-directional traffic volume rather than by the individual lane volumes. The distribution …