The Price of Speeding – Planned and Actual Travel Speed
Abstract
Nowadays, traffic on motorways is extremely sensitive to disturbances. The situation is further aggravated by inhomogeneous speed selection. We examined the Győr-Budapest section of the M1 motorway using a microscopic traffic simulation method. During the study, we sought to determine the extent of delays experienced by travellers at different target speeds compared to the planned travel speed as the average speed. The long-term goal of the research is to demonstrate the impact of changing speed limits on traffic flow
homogeneity, overall time loss in traffic flow, and the social cost of traffic.
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