Print Email Facebook Twitter The road safety of merging tapers Title The road safety of merging tapers: Measuring the effect of varying geometric designs and traffic conditions on driving behaviour at merging tapers Author de Ruyter, M. Contributor Hagenzieker, M.P. (mentor) Farah, H. (mentor) van Beinum, A.S. (mentor) Happee, R. (mentor) Wiggenraad, P.B.L. (mentor) Faculty Civil Engineering and Geosciences Department Transport & Planning Date 2016-11-08 Abstract In Dutch design guidelines it is presumed that merging tapers are unsafe compared to the standard merger design. However, this presumption is not scientifically underpinned and therefore it is unclear whether this presumption is correct and if merging tapers are indeed unsafe. Design guidelines for merging tapers are neither scientifically underpinned, and therefore it is unclear whether these design guidelines are correct. Due to this, it is unclear what the effect of deviating from the guidelines is on road safety on merging tapers. This study investigated the road safety on merging tapers compared to the standard merger design, and the effect of varying road designs and traffic conditions on the road safety on merging tapers. This was done by means of accident data, a questionnaire and a driving simulator experiment. Subject road safetydriving simulator experimentmerging tapersurrogate safety measuresgeometric road designdriving behaviour To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:d8e2a920-c959-4eb6-8e64-82e5be469661 Part of collection Student theses Document type master thesis Rights (c) 2016 de Ruyter, M. Files PDF report.pdf 15.15 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:d8e2a920-c959-4eb6-8e64-82e5be469661/datastream/OBJ/view