Analyzing the Speed Dispersion Influence on Traffic Safety

Author

Lu, Fangqiang ; Chen, Xuewu

Author_Institution

Sch. of Transp., Southeast Univ., Nanjing, China

Volume

3

fYear

2009

fDate

11-12 April 2009

Firstpage

482

Lastpage

485

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to analyze the influence of speed dispersion on traffic safety. The average speed difference (ASD for short) of two neighboring vehicles was used to define the speed dispersion. Based on the traffic data obtained from airport freeway in China and A20 freeway in the Netherlands, we carried out a comparative study on speed dispersion characteristics. We found that the speed dispersion of traffic flow on Airport freeway were larger than that on A20 freeway. The comparing results showed that A20 freeway was safer than Airport freeway. Some possible reasons were provided in this paper. This indicates that the ratio of large vehicle, traffic flow and over speed are the three main factors of speed dispersion influence on traffic safety.

Keywords

aerospace control; airports; safety systems; traffic control; velocity control; ASD; China; Netherlands; airport freeway; average speed difference; dispersion influence; traffic flow; traffic safety; vehicle over speeding; vehicle size; Airports; Computer crashes; Dispersion; Mechatronics; Road accidents; Traffic control; Variable speed drives; Vehicle safety; Velocity measurement; Videos; average speed difference; speed dispersion; traffic conflict technology; traffic safety;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Measuring Technology and Mechatronics Automation, 2009. ICMTMA '09. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Zhangjiajie, Hunan

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3583-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICMTMA.2009.566

Filename

5203248