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"We want to know whether it would be able to stand up to traffic, temperature changes and long-term exposure to the elements," he said.
Such forecasts should help commuters to set their alarm clocks much more accurately.Admittedly, predicting tomorrow's traffic temperature differs from predicting tomorrow's air temperature in a crucial respect.
A traffic temperature of 80° might then correspond to 20 minutes' delay, a temperature of 100° to 40 minutes' delay, and so on.
Reprints Related topics Transportation Georgia Institute of Technology AtlantaA traffic temperature of 60°, for example, might correspond to "no delay" along a route compared with the traffic conditions normally experienced on that route.
And if Dr Leonard's idea takes off, traffic temperature could someday become a standard measure for congestion throughout the world though the scale would, presumably, have to be rejigged for Celsius-loving Europeans.
Conditions on the roads, he suggests, should be expressed in terms of a traffic "temperature".In Dr Leonard's scheme, the degree of congestion for each road leading into a city would be worked out from data gathered by roadside cameras and induction-loops buried in the tarmac, and converted into a single number.
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And even drivers whose journeys involve switching between several major roads should rapidly acquire a feel for the relationship between the various traffic temperatures and the total durations of their trips, and would be able to allow extra time when necessary.Determining and broadcasting current traffic temperatures would, however, be just the first step.
He said that the East Coast charging stations should be 140 miles apart, not 200 miles, to take into account the traffic and temperature extremes in this part of the country.
Bitumen properties which correspond to high resistance to traffic and temperature are the prime requirements in prolonging the pavement life.
This method is particularly efficient for modeling structures with complex configurations and subjected to the traffic and temperature loadings.
Twelve structural models are selected out of the existing expressway bridges, and four actual load components (dead, traffic, live, temperature and earthquake load) are modeled by the Ferry-Borges and Castanheta's model (FB&C model).
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