Analysis of Traffic Congestion Impacts of Urban Road Network under Indian Condition

Abstract

Traffic congestion has been an area of major bother across the globe. The existing infrastructure is not able to cope with the new traffic demand. Furthermore the restriction of the space and outside activities influencing the traffic congestion. The emerging country like India, where the traffic conditions comprise heterogeneous traffic with no lane discipline, further creates more complicated scenarios for the researcher. A substantial portion of working hours is getting wasted on the roads because of traffic congestion, which imposes the negative effect on the overall economy. There has been numerous of literature and studies for analysis of the traffic congestion and its impacts. However, the result has not been much satisfying. In the present study congestion forecast is aimed under mixed traffic with no lane discipline towards identifying the inherent viability of the diversified traffic situation and presents better recommendations in controlling and evading these prolonged traffic jams. The urban highway systems were considered as a study area. Required particulars were collected by a License Plate Matching method using video graphic survey for the day rush timing considered from 8:00 AM to 10:00 AM and off peak hours to estimate the travel time of a distinct class of motorized vehicles for selected sections of the urban roadway. Congestion indices for both the up and down traffic of a particular road were evaluated from the data collected from the video recording. Traffic congestion impacts were analyzed and possible mitigation measures have been suggested. The study mainly focused on traffic jam indices with regarded to travel time reliability measures to observe the functional effectiveness of the urban road network.

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Traffic Conditions and Characteristics: Investigation of Road Segment Performance

“…Traffic congestion significantly impacts residents, such as wasting fuel, wasting time for nothing, and causing environmental damage due to air pollution emitted by motorized vehicles [18], [26]- [28]. This waste causes costs that should be used or allocated by the community for other uses to be spent on transportation costs such as fuel consumption.…”

A Simulation Approach for Evaluating Congestion and Its Mitigation Measures on Urban Arterials Operating with Mixed Traffic Conditions

“…They concluded that the travel time-based measure gives noticeable results about congestion. Samal et al [9] studied the traffic congestion on the urban arterial in India using the travel time reliability measures. They found that the users were wasting 50 % of the time in the congestion.…”

“…This increase in congestion level leads to the extra delay to the road users and the personage tension and high amount of emissions [8][9][10]. Traffic in developing countries such as India, Taiwan and Vietnam is highly heterogeneous in nature, characterized by a broad mix of vehicles with diverse static and dynamic features in the absence of a lane discipline.…”