Hello everyone,
I want to study on a road stretch of 55 km long. I want to do my analysis based on the segments of 1 km uniform length. Thus a total of 55 segments will be analyzed in the study. But the problem is how the traffic flow of the intersections present in this stretch can be dealt with. Many intersections are coming in this road stretch. How I will take the traffic flow of the segments consisting of intersections? In some road segments, there is intersection width also present. How the traffic flow of intersection width can be incorporated into my study?
Does anyone know how to deal with such a problem? Please share your thought and suggestions. Any kind of reference or paper or suggestion is highly appreciated.
Thanking you.
The traffic flow of the intersection should be considered as a separate, much more complex compared to the road segments part of the analysis. Rather, the analysis of traffic on segments should complement the analysis of traffic at intersections, and not the other way around.
I was wondering what is your analysis about Neelabha. If you want to study current traffic and future traffic, it is better collect traffic counts at midblocks, key intersections, bridge, boundary between key cities etc. You can use SIDRA for intersection analysis and design. Microsimulation models like AIMSUN, PARAMICS, VISSIM etc. can analyse traffic flow on a small network. If you want to analyse pavement thickness you can use CIRCLY.
Thanks for your comments Olexandr Polishchuk Sinnappoo (Ravi) Ravindran . Maybe my problem was not clearly explained. I am sorry for that. I want to input the traffic flow of each segment (as stated earlier). How the traffic flow for those segments which have intersections can be computed? I think you can understand the problem now.
Such a road (55 km) should be divided not into segments of 1 km length, but into segments from intersection to intersection. If the length of the segment is significantly greater than 1 km, then it can be divided into sub-segments of a shorter length. Then solving the intersections problem is much easier.
You can prepare a excel file and introduce all yiur traffic information in that file concerning your desired link and so one for all your network
Simple way is to have another segment on side road then you can find the number of vehicles entering into intersection from side road.
For each single approach you can add traffic volumes in the three directions.left, throgh ,and right to be equivalent to approach volume
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