Improvement on the Connection of Express Highways for the Preparation of Emergency Situation

Climate change that increases intense precipitation events, typhoon intensity, and so on, can have significant impacts on traffic flow in roadways. These disasters can block the traffic flows or destroy infrastructure facilities. Also, incidents including major car accidents obstruct traffic in roadways. Therefore, if people cannot suitably cope with these situations, roadway users can be trapped in roads and suffer a great inconvenience. It is necessary to have a rational plan that detours traffic to avoid a blocked site. This study aimed to suggest the plan that increases the connection of roadways to minimize road users’ inconvenience in express highways. This study revealed that the connection of express highways had a significant role as an alternative detour through simulation analysis. The authors determined by simulation analysis that the current installation of each facility seems to be fairly well-installed. Also, redundancy of roads is necessary in order to provide ceaselessly service to road users. In further studies, there needs to taken under consideration the study of emergency situations about national road network development, investment and evaluation of roadways, a feasibility study of SMART IC, which were not dealt in this study.

• Corporate Authors:

  ITS Japan

  Tokyo,   Japan 

  ITS America

  1100 17th Street, NW, 12th Floor
  Washington, DC  United States  20036

  ERTICO

  326 Avenue Louis
  Brussels,   Belgium  B-1050
• Authors:
  • Kim, Joon-Ki
  • Cho, Nam-Geon
• Conference:
  • 17th ITS World Congress
  • Location: Busan , Korea, South
  • Date: 2010-10-25 to 2010-10-29
• Publication Date: 2010

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; Photos; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 10p
• Monograph Title: 17th ITS World Congress, Busan, 2010: Proceedings

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Disaster preparedness; Disasters and emergency operations; Emergency communication systems; Emergency management; Emergency transportation; Evacuation
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01368769
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Apr 30 2012 7:53AM