| Article ID: | iaor2003599 |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Volume: | 35B |
| Issue: | 10 |
| Start Page Number: | 929 |
| End Page Number: | 937 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 2001 |
| Journal: | Transportation Research. Part B: Methodological |
| Authors: | Zhang H.M. |
| Keywords: | engineering |
This note shows that on a homogeneous, uninterrupted flow highway there can be three kinds of capacity for any location: one for acceleration flow, one for deceleration flow and another for stationary flow. It is the stationary (equilibrium) flow capacity that one should adopt as the ideal capacity of a roadway, as defined by the highway capacity manual.