Lateral Offset Based Analysis of Traffic Features at Urban Bottlenecks

DOI

10.2991/rsete.2013.67How to use a DOI?

Keywords

transportation engineering; density level; traffic bottleneck; lateral offset; average velocity

Abstract

There are a lot of vehicles changing its lane unobservantly when passing a traffic bottleneck in China, which may affect other vehicles that drive according to the rules.Even the traffic features on the road may also be influenced. Based on the data that collected from the road, this paper firstly proposes that there aredifferent lateral interferences among three lanes at the bus stop bottleneck, and then proves thatsignificant velocity differencesare existed among three adjacent lanes. Besides, as the lateral interference often occursat the bottleneck, lateral parametersare added to help to analyze the traffic features of the urban bottleneck. Finally this paper confirms the hypothesis that velocity will decrease when lateral offsetis increasingunder the same density level.The result also shows that though the increase of the road density is the main reason of low passing speed at the traffic bottleneck, the lateral position also influences the average velocity greatly.

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© 2013, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Zhaocheng He
AU  - Licheng Zhang
AU  - Wenbo Sun
PY  - 2013/08
DA  - 2013/08
TI  - Lateral Offset Based Analysis of Traffic Features at Urban Bottlenecks
BT  - Proceedings of the 2013 the International Conference on Remote Sensing, Environment and Transportation Engineering (RSETE 2013)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 274
EP  - 277
SN  - 1951-6851
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/rsete.2013.67
DO  - 10.2991/rsete.2013.67
ID  - He2013/08
ER  -