Area traffic capacity in centeral areas – Alexandria city center as a case study
| Autor: | Aly Hassan, Mahmoud Hassan Morsy, Mohamed Shahin |
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| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
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Engineering
Traffic management business.industry Process (engineering) Degree of saturation Travel demand management General Engineering Floating car data Planning process Vehicle Information and Communication System Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) Central areas Traffic micro-simulation Transport engineering Traffic congestion Area traffic capacity Traffic engineering ComputerSystemsOrganization_MISCELLANEOUS Traffic optimization TA1-2040 business Traffic bottleneck Engineering(all) |
| Zdroj: | Alexandria Engineering Journal, Vol 50, Iss 4, Pp 367-380 (2011) |
| ISSN: | 1110-0168 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.aej.2011.12.001 |
| Popis: | In many cities, worldwide, city centers are highly congested. The reason is that the Area Traffic Capacity (ATC) becomes constrained; i.e. the traffic and parking demands (mainly motorized), continually, increase within a finite roads’ and car parks’ capacity. The central Area Traffic Capacity (ATC) could be either the capacity of the internal road network, the parking capacity, or the capacity of the approach roads leading into the area. One of these three elements limits the overall traffic capacity. Therefore, the main objective of this paper is to develop a planning process which can be used as a tool for determining the ATC, and producing and evaluating different solutions (or scenarios) that can improve a central area traffic capacity. The proposed planning process is based on a combined analysis of traffic and parking situations which result from the travel demand and the traffic supply in a city center. If the travel demand is greater than the area traffic capacity, the process reflects feedback effects of parking and traffic situations on the desired supply or demand. Thus, it can be used to analyze different possible improving strategies, which might be needed to achieve favorable situations (formulating scenarios). The proposed planning process is then applied to estimate the area traffic capacity of Alexandria city center and to analyze the impacts of applying some traffic strategies in order to improve the ATC. |
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