Influencing Motorcyclist Behavior To Increase Signal Capacity And Safety

The high increase of motorcycles in developing countries makes motorcycles traffic needs a special treatmentotherwise capacity and safety at an intersection are sacrificed. This is because most accident involved motorcycles, and intersection capacity decreased due to improper behavior of motorcyclists. Therefore, the intention of this study is to investigate the behavior of motorcyclists and to find out a better solution that may increase intersection capacity and safety. A field study was carried out at an intersection to perform a proposed measure when motorcycles exist at the approach of an intersection. Results of the experiment showed that the behavior of motorcyclists can be influenced by a measure that increases intersection capacity and safety. This solution may be useful to be adopted in some similar countries in treating motorcyclists