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标题：Modeling of Traffic Flow on Indian Expressways using Simulation Technique
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作者：Manraj Singh Bains ; Manraj Singh Bains ; Balaji Ponnu 等
期刊名称：Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences
印刷版ISSN：1877-0428
出版年度：2012
卷号：43
页码：475-493
DOI：10.1016/j.sbspro.2012.04.121
语种：English
出版社：Elsevier
摘要：AbstractExpressways in India are vastly different from other roads of the country as bicycles, two-wheelers, three-wheelers and bullock carts are not allowed to ply on these facilities and the traffic essentially consists of cars and trucks. Nevertheless, there is not much research literature specific to these categories of roads. Hence, this work aims to model traffic flow on Indian Expressways by evaluating Passenger Car Unit (PCU) or Passenger Car Equivalents (PCE) of different vehicle categories at different volume levels in a level terrain using the micro-simulation model, VISSIM. This work also aims to evaluate capacity of expressways and to study the effect of vehicle composition on PCU values. It has been found that PCU decreases with increase in volume-capacity ratio irrespective of vehicle category. The study also revealed that at a given volume level, the PCU of a given vehicle category decreases when its own proportion in the stream increases.
关键词：heterogeneous traffic flow;expressways;simulation;pcu;roadway capacity