Traffic and Transportation Journal

Article

Overtaking as Indicator of Road Traffic Conditions

Dražen Topolnik, Zoran Zebec, Rajko Horvat

DOI:https://doi.org/10.7307/ptt.v12i5-6.1042

Keywords:road traffic, overraking, traffic flow, traffic safety, traffic capacity

Abstract

Overtaking is presemed as one of the indicators of roadtraffic flow. The possibility of overtaking depends on the existenceof an intetval in the opposing traffic flow sufficient to performovertaking. It also analyses the probability of overtakingby applying adequate equations and graphical presentations

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