To control ay and ay's rate of growth is always an important part in road geometric design. At present, however, vehicles are simplified as single rigid body when ay and day/dt are calculated. Moreover, the calculation is made in two-dimensional plane, which does not comply with the actuality. In this article, a "Road-Driver-Vehicle" simulation system (RDVS) is applied to get ay and day/dt. In RDVS, the dynamic vehicle model is driven on three-dimensional roads under the control of driver model, so it is more close to the real driving. We chose three roads in the mountainous area of southwestern China as the experiment subjects with designed speed of 20, 60 and 100 km/h, respectively. The results show: ay gotten from RDVS is bigger than that from single rigid body calculation. As RDVS is more reliable, ay from single rigid body calculation may cause an insufficient estimation. Suppose the driver drives at the designed speed. Though the designed speed varies, the peak value of ay of the three objects range in [2.0m/s2, 2.5m/s2], beyond the limit of comfort but within tolerate scope. As for Subject C, without application of clothoid, day/dt will exceed the limit of 1.0m/s3. So, it is suggested using clothoid, considering improving the quality.


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    Title :

    Analysis on Usage Comfort of Highway Alignment Quality Based on ay and ay's Change Rate


    Contributors:
    Peng, Qiyuan (author) / Xu, Jin (author) / Wang, Kelvin C. P. (author) / Li, Bing (author)

    Conference:

    Second International Conference on Transportation Engineering ; 2009 ; Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China



    Publication date :

    2009-07-29




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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