国内外公交专用道设置方法探讨

重庆目前正在开展公交专用道建设,北京、深圳、首尔是国内外公交专用道发展较早较好的城市,在设置方法和措施、实施效果、配套技术规范等方面已形成了较为成熟的体系,本文详细分析了三个城市的公交专用道设置形式、交叉口处理、公交港布设以及地方规范,对重庆有着较好的指导和借鉴意义。     

考虑排队阻滞和换道的改进宏观交通流模型

考虑路段上车辆换道及交叉口处排队阻滞作用,对交通流宏观演化模型进行改进.首先在排队中考虑不同车道的速度、密度差异,建立了换道模型;然后在交叉口内部划分各流向排队车辆的累积路径,分析不同的排队溢出位置对其他车流的阻滞影响;综合考虑车辆换道及交叉口处阻滞影响,建立了改进的车道组宏观交通流模型;最后设计仿真实验对模型进行验证.结果表明,在高流量需求下,本文模型能够模拟出下游的排队溢出对其他车流的阻滞影响;且在低中高3种不同的流量需求下,改进模型计算结果与仿真输出的驶离流量基本相符,与原有模型相比精度更高;由此证实了改进模型的准确性.     

基于失控车辆行驶特性的平行式避险车道研究

为了解决分离式避险车道存在的安全问题,分析了境内外分离式避险车道存在的不足,基于失控车辆行驶特性对平行式避险车道平面设计、纵面设计、横断面设计和路床材料选择等进行分析和研究,并对平行式、分离式避险车道进行了对比分析。研究认为平行式避险车道以驾驶员自救为原则,在驾驶员认为车辆存在较大的失控风险或车辆已失控时驶入,在避险车道停驻或速度降低后,再驶入主线,设置条件更为灵活,易于救援,工程规模小,值得深入研究和推广。     

基于交通仿真条件下多功能车道设置的必要性分析

选取天津市快速环路的路段为仿真背景,在主线为双向6车道和8车道时,分别进行多功能车道设置的必要性分析。采用VISSIM微观仿真软件,在主路车道数相同时,将设与不设多功能车道两种情况下事故车辆每车停车时间均取为15 min,仿真每种情况在事故停车率分别为0.05%、0.1%下的通行能力及延误。通过比较设置与不设置多功能车道在车辆紧急停靠时主线的通行能力及其它车辆延误,来分析多功能车道设置的必要性。     

大型营运客车在高速公路的换道安全性辨识

为了给大型营运客车换道预警系统设计提供参考,采用毫米波雷达、激光雷达、车道线识别传感器、GPS、视频监控系统以及控制器局域网（CAN）总线数据采集仪等设备,基于小型乘用车搭建浮动车采集平台。通过在试验线路上进行1.5×10⁴ km的驾驶试验,获取1 200余次营运客车的真实换道数据。以Jula提出的换道安全性模型为基础,结合营运客车的换道行为特征,通过分析换道进程结束后客车需要与周围车辆保持的安全距离,建立适合于营运客车的3类换道安全性识别模型（客车与自车道前方车辆、目标车道前方车辆、目标车道后方车辆）,并利用真实数据对3类模型进行验证。研究结果表明：客车换道持续时间均值为10.4 s,换道起始时刻与目标车道后方车辆的距离为10.0~40.0 m;所有换道样本中,73.3%的换道过程中客车速度要高于目标车道后方车辆,且超过90%的换道过程是由前方慢车引起;不同的速度区间下,车速和航向角联合变化情况下,驾驶人控制营运客车的横向偏移速度保持稳定,可认为客车驾驶人的心理预期换道进程存在固定经验模式,这与小型车换道的研究结论存在较大差异,传统的TTC预警算法识别率较低,在不同速度区间情况下,所提出的模型对客车与自车道前方车辆、目标车道前方车辆、目标车道后方车辆的换道安全识别评价准确率均超过了90%。     

信号交叉口可变导向车道应用方法研究——以无锡市蠡湖大道-周新路路口为例

该文以无锡市蠡湖大道-周新路路口为例,介绍可变车道在信号交叉口的应用方法,包含可变车道检测器的布置、信号灯控制机理,以及交通安全配套设施的设置等,最后通过饱和度指标评价可变车道方案的实施效果。结果显示,实施可变车道能够合理分配道路资源、缓解路口通行压力、减小车辆排队长度,对于潮汐车流明显的城市,具有推广的意义。     

Survey of pedestrians' crossing time at non‐signalized mid‐block street crossing

At non‐signalized mid‐block street crossings in China's cities, pedestrians often weave between motor vehicle flows. This paper investigated the influence patterns of the gender and age of pedestrians, the presence of a pedestrian group, vehicles' interference and the crossing direction on the crossing time at non‐signalized mid‐block street crossings in Changsha, China. The results show that the crossing speed is approximately 1–1.1 m/s; the crossing time increases with increasing age, and the crossing speed of a pedestrian will be quicker when the time gap between the pedestrian and the oncoming vehicle is smaller if he/she decides to cross. This paper also analyzed the crossing time pattern when pedestrians cross lane by lane and found that pedestrians spend the most time crossing the first lane and the least time crossing the middle lane, regardless of whether they are crossing from the curb to the central island or from the central island to the curb. The crossing speed is an important input to the design of pedestrian facilities, so these findings can be applied to the assessment of pedestrian crossing safety in China's cities and can provide a basis for the design of pedestrian crossing facilities. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Adaptive control algorithm to provide bus priority with a pre-signal

In urban areas, where road space is limited, it is important to provide efficient public and private transportation systems to maximize person throughput, for example from a signalized intersection. To this end, this research looks at providing bus priority using a dedicated bus lane which is terminated upstream of the intersection, and placing an additional signal at this location, called a pre-signal. Although pre-signals are already implemented in some countries (e.g. UK, Denmark, and Switzerland), an adaptive control algorithm which responds to varying traffic demands has not yet been proposed and analyzed in the literature. This research aims to fill that gap by developing an adaptive control algorithm for pre-signals tailored to real-time private and public transportation demands. The necessary infrastructure to operate an adaptive pre-signal is established, and guidelines for implementation are provided. The relevant parameters regarding the boundary conditions for the adaptive algorithm are first determined, and then quantified for a typical case using a micro-simulation model. It is demonstrated with case studies that, under all considered scenarios, implementing a pre-signal with the proposed adaptive control algorithm will result in the least average person delay at the intersection. The algorithm is expected to function well with a wide range of car demands, bus frequencies, and bus passenger occupancies. Moreover, the algorithm is robust to errors in these input values, so exact information is not required.     

Safety impacts of signalized lane merge control at highway work zones

Lane closures due to highway work zones present many challenges to the goal of ensuring smooth traffic operations and a safe environment for both drivers and workers. Late merge behavior at a work zone closure is a dangerous behavior that impacts the traffic conflicts upstream of work zone closures. This paper analyzes the safety impacts of using a signalized lane control strategy at the work zone merge points. To achieve the objective of this research, a field study has been conducted at a highway work zone to collect traffic and driver behavior data, and a two-stage, simulation-based approach is used to analyze the safety impacts of implementing a signalized lane merge control strategy at the studied work zone. In the first stage, micro-simulation models are developed and calibrated based on field data to generate vehicle trajectories. In the second stage, the U.S. Federal Highway Administration’s Surrogate Safety Assessment Model is employed to identify potential conflicts under different traffic conditions. The paper concludes that a proposed signal control device could significantly reduce lane-change conflicts at work zone merge points. In addition, recommendations on the signal cycle length and timing splits are provided.     

An investigation of multiplier effects generated by implementing queue jump lanes at multiple intersections

This paper investigates the combination effects of queue jump lanes (QJLs) on signalised arterials to establish if a multiplier effect exists, that is, the benefit from providing QJLs at multiple intersections is higher than the sum of benefits from providing them individually at each of those intersections. To explore the combination effects on bus delay and total person delay, a delay estimation model is developed using kinematic wave theory, kinematic equations and Monte Carlo simulation. In addition, to investigate the combination effects in offset settings optimised for bus delay or total person delay, offset optimisation models are proposed. Validation results using traffic micro‐simulation indicate the effectiveness and computational efficiency of the proposed models. Results of a modelling test bed suggest that providing QJLs at multiple intersections can create a multiplier effect on one‐directional bus delay savings with signal offsets that provide bus progression. Furthermore, optimising offsets to minimise bus delay tends to create a multiplier effect on one‐directional bus delay savings, particularly when variations in dwell times are not high. The reason for the multiplier effect may be that providing QJLs reduces variations in bus travel times, which makes signal coordination for buses perform more effectively. From a policy perspective, the existence of a multiplier effect suggests that a corridor‐wide scale implementation of QJLs has considerable merit. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.