Passing Behavior on Rural Two-Lane Highways

Abstract

Passing on rural two-lane highways is one of the most important driving tasks. More than 28000 vehicles were observed and the passing maneuvers were recorded of 10 two-lane highways in northern Iraq during June and July months of 2005. It was found that the number of passing maneuver increase as the flow rate for both directions increase up to 1500 veh/hr flow rate. The passing maneuvers decreases with the increase in flow rate. The increase in flow rate causes an increase in demand of passing and decrease in passing supply. Volume of around 212 veh/hr gives a balance between demand of passing and passing supply.