Selection of detouring vehicles for traffic organization in reconstruction and expansion project of freeway

Author

Qing Tang ; Shunying Zhu ; Hong Wang ; Bing Liu

Author_Institution

Dept. of Traffic Eng., Wuhan Univ. of Technol., Wuhan, China

Volume

2

fYear

2011

fDate

20-22 Aug. 2011

Firstpage

160

Lastpage

163

Abstract

Choosing what type of vehicle to detour is an important part in traffic organization in freeway reconstruction and expansion project. The experience of vehicle selection is first concluded. Base on ve hic le s´ traveling characteristics, the comparison of each selection is provided. The application and limitation of each selection are based on capacity, safety, network service level and some other aspects. The reconstruction and expansion project of Beijing-Hong Kong-Macao Freeway(Hebei section) is illustrated as an incidence to conduct the selection of detouring vehicles.

Keywords

automated highways; road traffic; road vehicles; traffic engineering computing; Beijing-Hong Kong-Macao Freeway; detouring vehicle; freeway expansion project; freeway reconstruction; network service level; safety; traffic organization; vehicle selection; vehicle traveling characteristics; Bridges; Organizations; Roads; Safety; Traffic control; Vehicles; detouring vehicles; freeway; reconstruction and expansion project; traffic organization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence Conference (ITAIC), 2011 6th IEEE Joint International

Conference_Location

Chongqing

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8622-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ITAIC.2011.6030300

Filename

6030300