Assessing the Impact of Rainfall on Traffic Operation of Urban Road Network

The research reported in this paper quantifies the impact of rainfall on traffic operation of the urban road network. The macroscopic analysis method of the network is the Macroscopic Fundamental Diagram (MFD), which can be used to describe and estimate the level-of-service of the road network and evaluate the network-wide traffic state. Quantitative mastering of the impact of rainfall on the MFD of the urban network is not only important for the further understanding of the MFD stability, but also important for the transportation planning and traffic management under rainy conditions. The results of the empirical analysis indicate that rainfall has an obviously diminishing effect on traffic variables of the network's MFD. The average reductions in production, accumulation and weighted speed are 0.2%, 7.8% and 5.4%, respectively. Moreover, rain has greater negative impact on the network's MFD in the evening peak.

• Record URL:
  • https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2013.08.012
• Record URL:
  • http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877042813021381
• Availability:
  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/issn/18770428
• Supplemental Notes:
  • © 2013 Feifei Xu et al.
• Authors:
  • Xu, Feifei
  • He, Zhaocheng
  • Sha, Zhiren
  • Zhuang, Lijian
  • Sun, Wenbo
• Conference:
  • 13th COTA International Conference of Transportation Professionals (CICTP 2013)
  • Location: Shenzhen , China
  • Date: 2013-8-13 to 2013-8-16
• Publication Date: 2013-11-6

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 82-89
• Serial:
  • Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences
  • Volume: 96
  • Issue Number: 0
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 1877-0428
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/18770428/53
• Publication flags:

  Open Access (libre)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Highway operations; Impacts; Level of service; Macroscopic traffic flow; Rainfall; Urban areas
• Uncontrolled Terms: Road networks
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01503424
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jan 7 2014 4:41PM