Analysis of Traffic Conflict Characteristic at Temporary Reversible Lane

Cao, Yi; Zuo, Zhongyi; Xu, Huining

doi:10.3311/pptr.7068

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“…Currently, this strategy is applied to median lanes in multilane roads. Up until now, reversible lanes are of complex implementation because of the difficult adjustment for human driving and the need for investment in variable traffic signs [1]. Previous research on road safety has always revealed that reversible lanes have negative impacts on road safety.…”

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“…In the early 2000s, the benefits of such a strategy were evident in road capacity increase and were applied in many facility types [12,13]. However, in the human-driven vehicles paradigm, traffic conflicts have been identified due to the human maladaptation to reversible lanes, which leads to low operating efficiency and a low lane utilization rate [1,14]. In practice, reversible lanes are applied as median reversible lanes in bridges [9] and freeway construction zones [15].…”

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The Reversible Lane Network Design Problem (RL-NDP) for Smart Cities with Automated Traffic

2020

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With automated vehicles (AVs), reversible lanes could be a sustainable transportation solution once there is vehicle-to-infrastructure connectivity informing AVs about the lane configuration changes. This paper introduced the reversible lane network design problem (RL-NDP), formulated in mixed-integer non-linear mathematical programming—both the traffic assignment and the reversible lane decisions were embedded. The model was applied on an hourly basis in the case study of the city of Delft, the Netherlands. Reversible lanes are examined under no traffic equilibrium (former paths are maintained); user-equilibrium (UE) assignment (AVs decide their own paths); and system-optimum (SO) traffic assignment (AVs are forced to follow SO paths). We found out that reversible lanes reduce congested roads, total travel times, and delays up to 36%, 9%, and 22%, respectively. The SO scenario was revealed to be beneficial in reducing the total travel time and congested roads in peak hours, whereas UE is equally optimal in the remaining hours. A dual-scenario mixing SO and UE throughout the day reduced congested roads, total travel times, and delay up to 40%, 8%, and 19%, respectively, yet increased 1% in travel distance. The spatial analysis suggested a substantial lane variability in the suburbs, yet a strong presence of reversible lanes in the city center.

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The Reversible Lane Network Design Problem (RL-NDP) for Smart Cities with Automated Traffic

2020

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“…al., 2014. The results of the accident reconstructions are useful in developing recommendations for making transport infrastructure and vehicles safer (Cao et. al., 2014).…”

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Bicycles’ Role in Road Accidents a Review of Literature

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Baranyai²,

Török³

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Transport and Telecommunication Journal

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Nearly 1.3 million people die in road crashes each year, on average 3,287 deaths a day. In 2013 in the European Union more than 6 % of all who died in road traffic crashes were cyclists. The number of cyclist killed on roads in the EU has decreased by only 9 %, compared to the total fatality decrease of 18 % from 2010 to 2013. The majority of cyclist fatalities are males (78 %). For the larger countries, Belgium and The Netherlands had the highest proportion of female cyclist fatalities (> 30 %). In general, 55 % of the bicycle fatalities in the EU countries were killed inside urban areas but there are large differences between the countries. In the last couple of years there has been an enormous effort on reduction in cycling fatality numbers across almost all ages in the EU. As a result of this effort, the number of accidents started to slightly decrease. This paper reviews the literature concerning cyclist-motor vehicle collision and road safety management according to the cyclist role in the accident rise. The paper examines pedestrians safety in order to determine what kind of factors of transport infrastructure, vehicle technical parameters, cyclist behavior and road or street category have the influence on cyclist and vehicle accidents and identify technical reasons of the accidents rise. A review is conducted of information in the literature on the injury outcome of a cyclist/vehicle collision for a given impact speed and the likely consequences of reducing the travelling speeds of vehicles in terms of the frequency and severity of cyclist injuries.

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“…Moreover, other innovative techniques have been presented to affront traffic jams, i.e. temporary use of reversible lanes within the network (Cao et al 2014) or road infrastructure booking (Soltész et al 2011).…”

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Macroscopic Modeling and Control of Emission in Urban Road Traffic Networks

2015

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Abstract. This work suggests a framework for modeling the traffic emissions in urban road traffic networks that are described by the Network Fundamental Diagram (NFD) concept. Traffic emission is formalized in finite spatiotemporal windows as a function of aggregated traffic variables, i.e. Total Travel Distances (TTDs) in the network and network average speed. The framework is extended for the size of an urban network during a signal cycle -the size of a window in which the network aggregated parameters are modeled in the NFD concept. Simulations have been carried out for model accuracy analysis, using the microscopic Versit+Micro model as reference. By applying the macroscopic emission model function and the traffic modeling relationships, the control objective for pollution reduction has also been formalized. Basically, multi-criteria control design has been introduced for two criteria: maximization of the TTD and minimization of traffic emissions within the network.

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Analysis of Traffic Conflict Characteristic at Temporary Reversible Lane

Cited by 10 publications

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The Reversible Lane Network Design Problem (RL-NDP) for Smart Cities with Automated Traffic

The Reversible Lane Network Design Problem (RL-NDP) for Smart Cities with Automated Traffic

Bicycles’ Role in Road Accidents a Review of Literature

Macroscopic Modeling and Control of Emission in Urban Road Traffic Networks

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