01025758

Component

https://doi.org/10.3141/1968-04

http://scholar.google.com...arma&publication_year=2006

Estimating design hourly volume (DHV)—commonly the 30th highest hourly volume (30HV) in a year—from sample counts is an important aspect of traffic engineering practice. Directional DHV (DDHV) on highways without permanent traffic counters (PTCs) is usually determined by the estimated annual average daily traffic (AADT) being multiplied by the ratio of DHV to AADT and the directional split ratio during the DHV at a PTC on a similar road. However, highway designers have questioned the validity of this method, and its limitations have been well discussed. Because recreational travel on most holidays in developed countries is active and increases highway traffic volumes vastly, the main intent is to develop more accurate and efficient DDHV prediction models based on directional hourly volumes that occur during holiday periods. The existing literature on DHV is reviewed, then holiday traffic peaking characteristics are investigated on the basis of the past 20 years of data from PTCs on rural highways in Alberta, Canada. Accounting for holiday traffic peaking characteristics such as directional peaking features, discernible and consistent hourly volume patterns during holiday weeks, and the remarkable contributions of holiday travel to the yearly highest hourly volumes, genetic algorithms (GAs) are used to assist in the development of several DDHV prediction models that correspond to various holidays and road types. The analysis results indicate that GA-assisted DDHV models consistently outperform the existing models.

01037954

English

pp 30-39

2006

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board

0309099773

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Figures (4) ; References (18) ; Tables (5)

Design hourly volume; Genetic algorithms; Holidays; Mathematical prediction; Peak periods; Rural highways; Traffic counts; Traffic engineering; Traffic forecasting; Traffic volume; Travel

Alberta

Data and Information Technology; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Mar 3 2006 10:28AM

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