International Journal of Nonlinear Analysis and Applications

Modeling factors affecting traffic management and reducing accidents on urban roads

Document Type : Research Paper

Author

Shahrood Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shahrood, Iran

Abstract

Due to the limited internal space of urban tunnels and the inability to manoeuvre the vehicles in them, critical situations will be created for vehicle traffic in accidents. Under these situations, traffic management strategies should be utilized for improving traffic status. The common and applicable strategies in these situations include traffic flow direction, line management, and ramp control. Accordingly, this research is conducted to determine the impact of each of these strategies in the occurrence of the most critical accident in the Niayesh and Resalat tunnels of London. Therefore, the studied areas of tunnels are initially simulated by software and traffic data at the peak hours of the morning in 2013, and then the amounts of traffic flow parameters, the total travel time, delay time, stop time, flow density, and the average velocity of each strategy are studied by defining four different scenarios. The results of conducted survey and analyses indicate that adopting the target strategies of this paper improves the conditions of traffic functional parameters; and according to the comparisons, the traffic flow direction strategy has the highest efficiency in Niayesh tunnel and the ramp control strategy has the highest efficiency in Resalat tunnel.

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International Journal of Nonlinear Analysis and Applications
Volume 15, Issue 6
June 2024
Pages 211-224
  • Receive Date: 16 February 2023
  • Revise Date: 11 May 2023
  • Accept Date: 02 June 2023