Effect of city size on start-up lost time at signalized intersections

Abstract

In recent years, the degree of motorization and transport work have been expanding, while the development of infrastructure, road and street networks, has not followed their growth. Such an approach leads to an increasingly frequent imbalance of traffic demand and capacity, that is, to a state of the traffic system in which the existing network is not able to respond to all requests made by users. The paper analyzes the influence of the size of the city on start-up lost time at signalized intersections. Investigations were conducted for traffic lanes right at two signalized intersections, in Smederevska Palanka and Belgrade. The research results indicate that the loss values are higher by 2.78 seconds in Smederevska Palanka.