Volume 12, Issue 3 And A (Transaction A: Civil Engineering September 2014)
IJCE 2014, 12(3 And A): 313-325 |
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QI H, WANG D, CHEN P, Bie Y M. A structural raffic flow model for urban arterial roads. IJCE 2014; 12 (3) :313-325
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A structural model for urban arterial road is proposed. It describes the road traffic dynamics in a disaggregated way. The structural model mainly includes: (1) a link traffic model that tracks the traffic waves cyclically. Traffic waves within each cycle are captured by three characteristic points. These points are formed by the encounter of different traffic waves. (2) a proportional line model which is used to split the overall outflow into different turning flow. The model is derived directly from first-in-first-out (FIFO) principle. (3) a spillover component that deals with channelized section queue overflow and (4) a traffic flow performance index component that outputs macroscopic and microscopic level indexes. These indexes include delay, stops, queue length and vehicle trajectory, travel time. The former three can be used in traffic flow optimization and the latter two are valuable in vehicle emission evaluation. Simulation results show that with the increasing of numerical resolution, traditional CTM model gradually converges to our model.
Type of Study: Research Paper |
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Transportation
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