Dynamics of Vehicle Discharge at Signalized Intersections with Nonlane-based Mixed Traffic Operations

• BHATTACHARYYA Kinjal

  Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

• PAUL Bhaskar

  Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

• MAITRA Bhargab

  Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

抄録

Vehicle discharge is a major factor that influences the design of traffic signals. Emerging countries with nonlane-based mixed traffic operations have distinctly different vehicle discharge characteristics compared with countries with disciplined traffic operations. In the case of nonlane-based traffic, vehicles occupy any available space near an intersection and do not necessarily form a lane-based queue. As a result, prevailing trends of vehicle discharge characteristics, such as discharge headway and queue discharge rate, are not directly applicable. In this study, a new measure, the vehicle passing interval, was adopted to investigate the dynamics of vehicle discharge in such traffic conditions. A case study was conducted using several two-lane signalized approaches in Kolkata, India. The vehicle passing interval was found to be effective in capturing heterogeneity with respect to vehicle category, the lateral and longitudinal position of vehicles, and variation in discharge rate over different intervals of green time.

収録刊行物

• Asian Transport Studies

  Asian Transport Studies 5 (2), 310-325, 2018-09-01

  Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies

キーワード

• Nonlane-based Traffic
• Vehicle Discharge Characteristics
• Vehicle Passing Interval
• Urban India
• Signalized Intersection
• Discharge Rate

詳細情報

• CRID: 1390001288098887040
• NII論文ID: 130007480135
• DOI: 10.11175/eastsats.5.310
• ISSN: 21855560
• 本文言語コード: en
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