Reasonable Length of Acceleration Lane in Freeway Interchange Areas

Author

Zhang Wenbin ; Zhu Shunying ; Wang Bo ; Du Zhigang

Author_Institution

Sch. of Transp., Wuhan Univ. of Technol., Wuhan, China

Volume

2

fYear

2010

fDate

11-12 May 2010

Firstpage

980

Lastpage

983

Abstract

In order to relieve traffic congestion and accidents caused by vehicles merging into main road from ramp, the important influence factors of merging behavior were analyzed firstly. Then, traffic conditions under different traffic volume of ramp and main road and different length of acceleration lane were simulated by Vissim. According to security and efficiency evaluation measured by conflict intensity and average delay, reasonable acceleration lane length was selected under certain traffic condition. Finally, the simulation model was compared with several other common models. Researches indicated that the model conformed to the actual situation.

Keywords

accident prevention; road traffic; Vissim; acceleration lane; freeway interchange; road vehicle; traffic congestion; Acceleration; Cities and towns; Delay effects; Merging; Probability; Road accidents; Road transportation; Road vehicles; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control; acceleration lane; freeway; interchange; reasonable length;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Computation Technology and Automation (ICICTA), 2010 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Changsha

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7279-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-7280-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICICTA.2010.434

Filename

5523026