A STUDY OF FREEWAY TRAFFIC OPERATION

The study was made p r i n c i p a l l y by the motion picture method, which f a c i l i t a t e d the simultaneous evaluation of various operational characteristics and provided the d i s t i n c t advantage of being able t o re-create t r a f f i c situations f o r more thorough study. T r a f f i c operations were recorded on approximately 22,000 f t of 16-mm f i l m during the course of nine separate studies made on freeways i n Houston, Dallas, and Fort Worth.