This paper addresses issues on road safety analysis through microscopic traffic simulation models. The Surrogate Safety Assessment Model (SSAM) was applied to read vehicle trajectory files generated by two micro-simulators and then calculate surrogate measures of safety. Since safety assessment of any road entity can provide different results based on the micro-simulator which is used, the main objective of this research was to estimate the safety performance of three roundabout layouts and compare the conflict events simulated by AIMSUN and VISSIM. The two micro-simulators were used to build the calibrated models of the roundabouts, each fitting the corresponding empirical capacity function. The results provided insights on how to set the SSAM filters in order to have a comparable frequency of conflicts by simulation and examine conditions under which a safety analysis could be independent of the software used.
Surrogate Measures of Safety at Roundabouts in AIMSUN and VISSIM Environment
Lect. Notes in Networks, Syst.
Scientific And Technical Conference Transport Systems Theory And Practice ; 2018 ; Katowice, Poland September 17, 2018 - September 19, 2018
Roundabouts as Safe and Modern Solutions in Transport Networks and Systems ; Kapitel : 5 ; 53-64
01.08.2018
12 pages
Aufsatz/Kapitel (Buch)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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