Overtaking Maneuvers on Single Carriageway

The study circle around the overtaking maneuvers on single carriageway road section. The condition of the road sections must fulfilled the requirements such as flat and straight road, presence of higher level surfaces and it must be in the rural area. The subject that is being studied is the road user excluding motorcyclists. Overtaking action performed by road users are recorded through video camera and later the data will be extracted to determine some of the important data in overtaking maneuver such as the decision time of the drivers to perform overtaking action, overtaking time, overtaking distances, safety margins, accepted and rejected gaps, headways at the start of the overtaking maneuvers, headways at the end of the overtaking maneuvers, speed of the overtaking vehicle and speed of the overtaken vehicle.