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    Passenger Car Equivalent (PCE) is a metric used to convert different vehicle types into an equivalent number of passenger cars to measure highway capacity. PCE values assign a weight to private vehicles, motorcycles, bicycles, and buses/trucks based on their space usage. In India, highways contain heterogeneous traffic with various vehicle sizes, loose lane discipline, and varying traffic patterns, making PCE calculations more complex than using density methods applied in more homogeneous traffic conditions in the US. Transportation engineers use multiple heuristic techniques to estimate a PCE for the mixed traffic stream. Different PCE values may be used for the same vehicle type depending on the road conditions.

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    Passenger Car Equivalent (PCE) is a metric used to convert different vehicle types into an equivalent number of passenger cars to measure highway capacity. PCE values assign a weight to private vehicles, motorcycles, bicycles, and buses/trucks based on their space usage. In India, highways contain heterogeneous traffic with various vehicle sizes, loose lane discipline, and varying traffic patterns, making PCE calculations more complex than using density methods applied in more homogeneous traffic conditions in the US. Transportation engineers use multiple heuristic techniques to estimate a PCE for the mixed traffic stream. Different PCE values may be used for the same vehicle type depending on the road conditions.

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    Methods: Passenger Car Equivalent (PCE), Is A Metric Used in Private Car (Including Taxis or Pick-Up) 1

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    Passenger Car Equivalent (PCE) is a metric used to convert different vehicle types into an equivalent number of passenger cars to measure highway capacity. PCE values assign a weight to private vehicles, motorcycles, bicycles, and buses/trucks based on their space usage. In India, highways contain heterogeneous traffic with various vehicle sizes, loose lane discipline, and varying traffic patterns, making PCE calculations more complex than using density methods applied in more homogeneous traffic conditions in the US. Transportation engineers use multiple heuristic techniques to estimate a PCE for the mixed traffic stream. Different PCE values may be used for the same vehicle type depending on the road conditions.

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    Passenger Car Equivalent (PCE), is a metric used in private car (including taxis or pick-up) 1 motorcycle 0.5 bicycle 0.

    e 0.2 horse-drawn vehicle 4 bus, tractor, truck 3.5

    Highway capacity is measured in PCE/hour daily Passenger Car Equivalent is also sometimes used interchangeably with Passenger car unit (PCU). A common method used in the US is the density method. However, the PCU values derived from the density method are based on underlying homogeneous traffic concepts such as strict lane discipline, car following and a vehicle fleet that does not vary greatly in width. On the other hand, highways in India, carry heterogeneous traffic, where road space is shared among many traffic modes with different physical dimensions. Loose lane discipline prevails; car following is not the norm. This complicates computing of PCE. Using multiple heuristic techniques, transportation engineers convert a mixed traffic stream into a hypothetical passenger-car stream.

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    Many methods exist for determining passenger car units (PCUs) examples: homogenization coefficient, semi-empirical method, Walkers method, headway method, multiple linear regression method Chandra Method simulation method.

    It may be appropriate to use different values for the same vehicle type according to circumstances. For example, in the UK in the 1960s and 1970s, bicycles were evaluated thus: on rural roads 0.5 on urban roads 0.33 on roundabouts 0.5 at traffic lights 0.2.

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