‘Two-wheelers agile, but impede others’

If you were to calculate the actual speeds of vehicles on Ahmedabad roads, traffic researchers have argued, measurements should be conducted in respect of motorcycle equivalent units (MEUs), instead of passenger car units (PCU). In the west, where city roads are dominated by cars, traffic analysts conduct speed-flow analysis of vehicles and road usage patterns in respect of PCUs. But in cities, like Ahmedabad, dominated by two-wheelers (almost 74%) researchers at Department of Civil Engineering LJ Institute of Engineering and Technology Gujarat Technological University, have now shown how a high level of speed-flow accuracy can be achieved if motorcycles are used as base vehicles for analysis.

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