• Asief Ahad
• Paramjeet Mor

Roadside Friction Elements including street parked and stopping vehicles, haphazard movement of pedestrians along the sides and mid sections of the roads, slow moving vehicles (SMV), on road parked vehicles, roadside vendors on a roadway not only restricts the continuous or smooth vehicular flow movement but also affects maximum flow and level of service. This study was carried out with the intention to quantify the effect of roadside friction on average travel speed and Level of Service (LOS) of roads and the road selected for the study is Nagbal-Manigam Ganderbal road of J&K state. Based on data collected at different periods of the day and at different friction levels, a detailed procedure has been followed to calculate the Average Travel Speeds, Flow, Level of Service and Roadside Friction Index (RSFI) for each run made. Speed-flow curves and speed-density curves for different friction levels have been generated and the impact of the roadside friction has been analyzed. In the later stages of the work, Regression modelling has been used to derive the relationships between the average travel speed as dependent variable and flow and roadside friction as independent variables.

Roadside Friction, average travel speed, Regression Models, RSFI, FRIC.

"IMPACT OF ROADSIDE FRICTION ELEMENTS ON AVERAGE TRAVEL SPEED AND LOS OF URBAN TWO LANE STREETS ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 9, page no.142-155, September-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1809429.pdf

"IMPACT OF ROADSIDE FRICTION ELEMENTS ON AVERAGE TRAVEL SPEED AND LOS OF URBAN TWO LANE STREETS ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 9, page no. pp142-155, September-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1809429.pdf