A Model to Describe the Dynamic Influence Length of the Vehicles on the Main Road at the Upstream Sections of Off-Street Parking Access

This paper presents research on the upstream sections of off-street parking access in the city. When the parking car turns right from the main road of the rightest lanes into the access, the vehicles which are upstream of the access on the main road may be affected and the influence length can be presented as two parts: one is the deceleration distance of the parking car and the other is the propagation distance of traffic wave caused by the following vehicles. By the way of theoretical analysis and field investigation, the authors present a model that represents the dynamic influence length under the condition of different entering time and moderate saturation. Parameters were specialized to represent the characters of parking car and the vehicles following it, including park entering time and speed variation rate. Some conclusions were drawn by contrasting the simulation of VISSIM 5.3 and the model. First, when entering time was between 4s to 8s, saturation and the influence length were in inverse proportion; while the entering time was more than 8s, saturation and the influence length were in direct proportion. Second, when the saturation was between 0.46 and -0.5 and entering time was between 4s and 15s, parking car had no effect on the vehicles. Third, when the saturation was more than 0.6 and entering time was more than 9s, the effect of parking car on the vehicle's influential length increased significantly.

• Record URL:
  • https://doi.org/10.1155/2013/140179
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • © 2013 Deng Shejun and Chen Jun.
• Authors:
  • Shejun, Deng
  • Jun, Chen
• Publication Date: 2013

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 10p
• Serial:
  • Advances in Mechanical Engineering
  • Volume: 2013
  • Issue Number: Article ID 140179
  • Publisher: Sage Publications, Incorporated
  • ISSN: 1687-8132
  • EISSN: 1687-8140
  • Serial URL: https://journals.sagepub.com/home/ade
• Publication flags:

  Open Access (libre)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Deceleration; Off street parking; Parking; Traffic delays; Traffic flow
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; I71: Traffic Theory;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01505424
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jan 27 2014 11:03AM