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MPT question - max hourly volume for flagger control?

MPT question - max hourly volume for flagger control?

MPT question - max hourly volume for flagger control?

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I asked this a week ago in the Traffic engineering forum, and got no response - is anyone here willing to take a crack at it?

How much volume can flaggers be expected to handle? I recall seeing 850 vph proposed as a cutoff for alternating one-way signal control, but I've never seen any studies about flaggers.

There would be a lot of variables - presence or absence of sideroads, experience level of the flaggers, length of the work zone, etc. Let's say it's a short work zone, without sideroads, and average flaggers.

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