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The "Highway Capacity Manual" (HCM, 1985) has defined level of service mostly for developed countries which have a predominant contribution of motorized vehicles. There are much fewer models to simulate the urban heterogeneous traffic flow having a significant proportion of non-motorized vehicles. These types of flows are mostly observed in the countries of the Asia-Pacific region. The flow of heterogeneous traffic on urban roads is highly complex and the existing analytical models cannot be used to predict the flow behavior on urban corridors. A traffic simulation model, which can replicate the movement of heterogeneous traffic, has been developed to analyze the various environments of the road system. Traffic studies have been conducted on different roads of Kanpur metropolis. These studies include parameter estimation of different sub-models of the simulation system and traffic and driver behavior modeling. After development of the traffic simulation model, the model has been successfully calibrated and validated for the urban heterogeneous traffic flow conditions on the Kanpur roads. The simulation model has been further applied for experiments under different road, traffic, and operating conditions. Analysis of the simulation results is used to estimate the level of service under different operating conditions. The level of service criteria developed in this study may also help to identify the deficiencies of an urban road system and to plan for alternative improvements to attain a desired level of service.

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E-C018

English

p. 271-286

2000-6

Transportation Research Circular

Fourth International Symposium on Highway Capacity

Figures (12) ; References (2) ; Tables (4)

Calibration; Classification; Level of service; Motor vehicles; Nonmotorized transportation; Traffic flow; Traffic models; Urban highways; Validation

Heterogeneous traffic

Kanpur (India)

Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

NTL, TRIS, TRB

Jul 26 2000 12:00AM

• 2+1-ROADS WITH AND WITHOUT CABLE BARRIERS: SPEED PERFORMANCE
• A FURTHER INVESTIGATION ON CRITICAL GAP AND FOLLOW-UP TIME
• A PROBABILISTIC APPROACH TO DEFINING FREEWAY CAPACITY AND BREAKDOWN
• ADVANCING THE FRONTIER OF SIMULATION AS A CAPACITY AND QUALITY OF SERVICE ANALYSIS TOOL
• AN EMPIRICAL STUDY ON THE CAPACITY OF BOTTLENECKS ON THE BASIC SUBURBAN EXPRESSWAY SECTIONS IN JAPAN
• ANALYSIS OF ALTERNATIVE SERVICE MEASURES FOR FREEWAY FACILITIES
• ANALYSIS OF THE INTERRELATIONSHIP AMONG TRAFFIC FLOW CONDITIONS, DRIVING BEHAVIOR, AND DEGREE OF DRIVER'S SATISFACTION ON RURAL MOTORWAYS
• CAPACITY AND PERFORMANCE OF ROUNDABOUTS: A SUMMARY OF RECOMMENDATIONS IN THE FHWA ROUNDABOUT GUIDE
• CAPACITY AT ALL-WAY STOP-CONTROLLED AND FIRST-IN-FIRST-OUT INTERSECTIONS
• CAPACITY OF UNSIGNALIZED URBAN JUNCTIONS
• COMPARISON OF FREEWAY SIMULATION WITH INTEGRATION, KRONOS, AND KWAVES
• COMPARISON OF THE HCM AND SINGAPORE MODELS OF ARTERIAL CAPACITY
• DEVELOPMENT OF CAPACITY ESTIMATION METHOD FROM STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION OF OBSERVED TRAFFIC FLOW
• DEVELOPMENT OF CAPACITY GUIDELINES FOR ROAD LINKS AND INTERSECTIONS FOR HENAN AND HEBEI PROVINCES, PRC
• DISCHARGE CHARACTERISTICS OF HETEROGENEOUS TRAFFIC AT SIGNALIZED INTERSECTIONS
• EFFECT OF DARKNESS ON THE CAPACITY OF LONG-TERM FREEWAY RECONSTRUCTION ZONES
• EFFECT OF ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS ON FREE-FLOW SPEED
• EFFECT OF RADIUS OF CURVATURE FOR RIGHT TURNING VEHICLES ON THROUGH TRAFFIC DELAY
• EFFECTS OF DRIVER POPULATION ON THE TRAFFIC OPERATIONAL PERFORMANCE OF SIGNALIZED INTERSECTIONS
• EFFECTS OF OD FLOWS ON ROUNDABOUT ENTRY CAPACITY
• EFFECTS OF TRAFFIC CONDITION (V/C) ON SAFETY AT FREEWAY FACILITY SECTIONS
• ESTIMATION OF CRITICAL GAPS AND FOLLOW-UP TIMES AT RURAL UNSIGNALIZED INTERSECTIONS IN GERMANY
• EVALUATION OF MACRO- AND MESOSCOPIC MODELS FOR CONGESTION IMPACT ANALYSIS
• FOURTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON HIGHWAY CAPACITY, PROCEEDINGS, JUNE 27-JULY 1, 2000, MAUI, HAWAII
• FRAMEWORK TO CONSIDER THE EFFECT OF UNCERTAINTY IN FORECASTING THE LEVEL OF SERVICE OF SIGNALIZED AND UNSIGNALIZED INTERSECTIONS
• HISTORICAL OVERVIEW OF THE COMMITTEE ON HIGHWAY CAPACITY AND QUALITY OF SERVICE
• INTEGRATION OF SAFETY AND THE "HIGHWAY CAPACITY MANUAL"
• LEVEL OF SERVICE ON FINNISH TWO-LANE HIGHWAYS
• LEVEL-OF-SERVICE MEASURE OF ROAD TRAFFIC BASED ON THE DRIVER'S PERCEPTION
• MACRO SPEED-FLOW MODEL FOR ON- AND OFF-RAMPS ON MULTILANE ROADS
• MULTIMODAL ARTERIAL LEVEL OF SERVICE
• NEW TRANSIT CAPACITY AND QUALITY OF SERVICE MANUAL
• OPERATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS OF WEAVING SECTIONS IN CHINA
• PASSENGER CAR UNITS FOR HETEROGENEOUS TRAFFIC USING A MODIFIED DENSITY METHOD
• PROBABILISTIC MODELS FOR PEDESTRIAN CAPACITY AND DELAY AT ROUNDABOUTS
• TOWARDS AN AREAWIDE SERVICE MEASURE
• TRAFFIC FLOW ANALYSIS BEYOND TRADITIONAL METHODS
• UNBALANCED TRAFFIC VOLUMES AT ROUNDABOUTS
• UNCERTAINTY IN SATURATION FLOW PREDICTIONS
• USE OF SIMULATION TO ANALYSIS OF IMPEDANCE IMPACT AT UNSIGNALIZED INTERSECTIONS
• USER PERCEPTION OF LEVEL OF SERVICE AT SIGNALIZED INTERSECTIONS: METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES
• VEHICLE CLASSIFICATION FOR EXPRESSWAY CAPACITY ANALYSIS IN CHINA