Development of a Micro-Simulation Traffic Model to Investigate On-Street Parking and its Impacts on Sustainable Environments: A Case Study in the City of Newcastle Upon Tyne
The overall objective of this paper is to endorse the notion that on-street parking brings about traffic congestion and environmental pollution. This paper aims to quantitatively express traffic congestion as travel times and delays on specified road networks. The methodology employed involves the use of VISSIM, a micro-simulation software, for the development of a traffic model so as to display the travel times of traversing vehicles with and without the presence of on-street parking. The VISSIM-ENVPRO software is also instated to carry out a comparison in emission levels between specified road networks. Three case study sites have been selected within the city of Newcastle. The simulation runs and analysis show that there are considerable increases in travel time, delay and emissions with the presence of on-street parking in all three case study sites.
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Corporate Authors:
World Conference on Transport Research Society
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Authors:
- Ukpong, Itoro
- Dissanayake, Dilum
- Zhang, Bin
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Conference:
- 11th World Conference on Transport Research
- Location: Berkeley CA, United States
- Date: 2007-6-24 to 2007-6-28
- Publication Date: 2007
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: CD-ROM
- Features: Figures; References; Tables;
- Pagination: 18p
- Monograph Title: 11th World Conference on Transport Research
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Air pollution; Environmental impacts; On street parking; Sustainable transportation; Traffic congestion; Traffic delays; Traffic models; Traffic simulation; Travel time
- Identifier Terms: VISSIM (Computer model)
- Subject Areas: Environment; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01124264
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Mar 18 2009 6:24AM