The study of traffic flow characteristics is essential for designing highway systems for which different traffic influencing variables are of primary importance. The study aims to assess the impact of a range of traffic flow and density levels on the spatio-temporal (lateral placement and time headway) traffic characteristics of highways. A substantial amount of traffic data like speed, time headway (TH), and lateral placement (LP) of vehicles was collected continuously for 12 h on six Indian highway sections. The DPCU for different vehicles with different flow and density rates were calculated. The speed and TH descriptive statistics and probability distribution functions at varying flow and density levels were also analyzed. To determine the most appropriate probability distribution function, the goodness of fit test was used. Furthermore, the impact of traffic speed, flow, and density on the LP of vehicles under different traffic conditions was assessed using descriptive statistics. It was observed that the traffic flow and density levels had an unusual effect on the DPCUs of vehicles. The mean traffic speed under high flow and density decreased by 33.3 and 18.3%, while the mean TH under high flow and density decreased by 28.4 and 29.9%. Also, the results indicated that traffic speed and TH data exhibit a different distribution of probability functions depending on the traffic flow and density. The descriptive statistics on the LP of vehicles show the existence of a significant difference of the same concerning the different ranges of traffic speed, flow, and density.
Spatio-Temporal Traffic Characteristics Analysis on Multi-lane Highways Under Varying Traffic Flow and Density Levels
Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering
Conference of Transportation Research Group of India ; 2021 December 14, 2021 - December 17, 2021
Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference of Transportation Research Group of India ; Kapitel : 6 ; 83-104
02.09.2022
22 pages
Aufsatz/Kapitel (Buch)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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