Signalized intersections are integral and critical components of a link.

Traffic
signals optimise efficiency and safety at intersections by separating conflicting
traffic movements in time, but they can lead to delay. HCM 2000 prescribes the
control delay as the service measure for signalised intersection, which is
performance measure upon which the LOS is based upon. If the right turn
demand is very high, a separate phase or exclusive lanes are given for the right
turning movement. For situations where right turn spill over is prevalent, this
can lead to overly optimistic estimates of signal delay for the through
movement. Sometimes the right turning traffic spill overs in the straight
moving lanes and thus creating obstruction for the straight discharge, thus
causing the generation of queue, increment in the control delay and reduction
in capacity of the intersection.
This study developed relationships between Percentage right turn traffic vs.
Straight and Right Discharge, Straight Discharge vs. Spillover Discharge,
Queue Length vs. No of Spillover Vehicles and V/C Ratio of Right Lanes and
Straight Discharge vs. Right Turning Discharge. In this study a regression
model was developed for estimating the Spillover Discharge and Throughput
Discharge using regression analysis. In this study an equivalence factor was
also developed with changing percentage right turn, approach width and total
volume of the approach.
In this study good relationships where found between straight vs. spillover
discharge, queue length vs. V/C ratio and queue length vs. no of spillover
vehicles. There is a close relationship between spill over discharge and straight
discharge and the equivalency factors have been generated with the same
relationship. Queue Length increases linearly with increase in the number of
spill over vehicles