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In March 1988, an international workshop on intersections without
traffic signals was held at the Ruhr-University in Bochum, Germany.
The proceedings of this workshop were published by Springer 1). The
workshop was performed in a very harmonious atmosphere, which
stimulated the experts from different countries to communicate and
exchange their ideas and experiences. The presentations and the
written contributions documented the present state of technical
solutions for design and engineering of unsi gnalized intersections
both regarding scientific research and practical applications.
Moreover, numerous unsolved problems were identified. Thus, the
1988 workshop stimulated new developments in the field of
unsignalized inter sections in several countries. In the meantime,
these investigations have lead to a remarkable progress. For
example in Germany a new guideline for unsignalized cross
intersections and T-junctions has been finished and is going to be
introduced in 1991. New results on roundabout capacity have been
worked out as well. Many particularly important developments were
made in foreign countries. Especially in the United States, an
increasing interest in this subject can be observed. In the annual
meetings of the TRB, this item received great attention. Many
research institutes in North America have concentrated their
activities on that point. A new TRB-circular concerning
unsignalized intersections is going to be published. It will
contain a new procedure for four-way-stop-control intersections,
which seems to be a special feature of North American traffic
engineering. However, new results from the US for two-way-stop
control intersections are available as well."
Anyone who reflects on the future of society cannot do so without
at the same time thinking about the future of our transportation
systems. The dilemma is obvious. On the one hand, mobility must be
maintained as it is crucial to economic development and because
people are eager for individual mobility. On the other hand,
traffic imposes heavy burdens on people and on the environment, on
cities and communities and on our national economies. Finding a
solution to that dilemma seems to be difficult, in fact we have not
even developed a rough idea of how it could look like. This is why
the North Rhine-Westphalia Science and Research Ministry came up
with the plan to work out a well-founded scientific basis on which
to solve the problems inherent in our transport system. A research
network has been established and sponsored with government funds
for a period of three years with a view to realising that
objective. The "Traffic Simulation and Environmental Impact"
research network is composed of researchers who have an excellent
reputation as North Rhine-Westphalia traffic experts. Cutting
across various disciplines of knowledge, the network aims to
integrate transportation and natural sciences, particularly physics
and mathematics, in a move to profit by the synergy between
technical know-how and innovative methodology. The present volume
is intended as a progress report and a prologue to the forthcoming
international colloquium which represents the highlight and at the
same time the end of the three-year project funding period.
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