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Chapter 1: The Traffic Signal Controls System: Its Pieces and How They Fit Together 1 -
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Activity #1 Exploring the System and Proving a Framework 3 -
Activity #2 What Do You Know About Traffic Signal Systems? 17 -
Activity #3 Exploring the System: Driving Along an Arterial and Noting What You See 23 -
Activity #4 Learning to See: The Simulation Environment in Which We Will Work 25 -
Activity #5 Working Together: Team Building for Effective Learning and Design 27 -
Activity #6 Design Team Agreement 39 -
Activity #7 Introduction to the Traffic Signal Timing Manual 41
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Chapter 2: Modeling What We've Observed: Queuing Systems 45 -
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Activity #8: Modeling Traffic Flow at Signalized Intersections 47 -
Activity #9: What Do You Know About Queuing Systems? 65 -
Activity #10: Using High Resolution Field Data to Visualize Traffic Flow 71 -
Activity #11: From Model to the Real World: Field Observations 75 -
Activity #12: Basic Operational Principles 81
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Chapter 3: Whose Turn Is It? Phasing, Rings, and Barriers 85 -
Chapter 4: Actuated Traffic Controller Timing Processes 105 -
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Activity #17 Controller Timing Process 107 -
Activity #18 What Do You Know About Controller Operations? 113 -
Activity #19 The ASC/3 Traffic Controller 117 -
Activity #20 How a Traffic Phase Times and Terminates 121 -
Activity #21 Exploring a Controller Emulator 125 -
Activity #22 Constructing a Traffic Control Process Diagram 127 -
Activity #23 Inferring Signal Timing Parameter Values 137 -
Activity #24 Signal Timing Parameters 141
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Chapter 5: The Simulation Environment: Learning to See a Traffic Signal System 145 -
Chapter 6: Timing Processes on One Approach 171 -
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Activity #30 Considering Minimum Green Time, Passage Time, and Detection Zone Length 173 -
Activity #31 What Do You Know About Detection Zone Length and Passage Time? 185 -
Activity #32 Relating the Length of the Detection Zone to the Duration of the Green Indication 189 -
Activity #33 Determining the Length of the Minimum Green Time 193 -
Activity #34 Understanding the Variation of Vehicle Headways in a Departing Queue 197 -
Activity #35 Relating Headway to Unoccupancy Time and Vehicle Extension Time 201 -
Activity #36 Determining the Maximum Allowable Headway 205 -
Activity #37 Determining the Passage Time 213 -
Activity #38 Actuated Traffic Control Processes 221
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Chapter 7: Timing Processes for the Intersection 225 -
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Activity #39 Maximum Green Time, Cycle Length, and Delay 227 -
Activity #40 What Do You Know About Maximum Green Time, Cycle Length, and Delay? 235 -
Activity #41 Determining the Effect of the Minor Street Vehicle Extension Time on Intersection Operations 237 -
Activity #42 Determining the Effect of the Maximum Green Time on Intersection Operations 245 -
Activity #43 Setting the Maximum Green Timing Parameter for All Approaches of an Intersection 249 -
Activity #44 Maximum Green Time 251
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Chapter 8: Left Turn Phasing—Permitted, Protected, or Both 255 -
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Activity #45 Left Turn Phasing 257 -
Activity #46 What Do You Know About Left Turn Phasing? 265 -
Activity #47 Permitted Left Turn Operations 267 -
Activity #48 Comparing Permitted and Protected Left Turn Phasing 271 -
Activity #49 Comparing Protected/Permitted and Protected Left Turn Phasing 273 -
Activity #50 Analysis and Design of Left Turn Treatment 277 -
Activity #51 Left Turn Phasing Options 279
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Chapter 9: Right of Way Change: Change and Clearance Intervals 283 -
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Activity #52 The Theoretical Basis of the Yellow and Red Clearance Intervals 285 -
Activity #53 What Do You Know About the Change and Clearance Intervals? 293 -
Activity #54 Drivers Responding to Yellow and Red Indications 295 -
Activity #55 Vehicle Response to Displays at End of Green 297 -
Activity #56 Determining Vehicle Change and Clearance Intervals 301 -
Activity #57 Yellow and Red Clearance Intervals 305
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Chapter 10: Your Final Design: Putting It All Together 309 -
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Activity #58 Integrating Information, Justifying Choices, and Communicating Results 311 -
Activity #59 Assembling Information For Your Timing Plan Design 325 -
Activity #60 What Do You Know About the Signal Timing Process? 327 -
Activity #61 Signal Timing Design in Practice 329 -
Activity #62 Design Report 331 -
Activity #63 Design Evaluations and Assessments 333
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