MODELLING LOCAL AREA TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT - SOME PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICALITIES

Local area traffic management (LATM) is an area of traffic planning and engineering where modelling has a useful role to play but where the requirement for modelling is demanding. It is necessary to combine modelling of queues at road junctions, including the growth and decline of queues in peak periods, with route choice models applied to detailed representations of local street networks. The aims of this paper are to identify the role of modelling in relation to LATM and the consequent requirements which models must satisfy in order to be useful, to describe how models have been developed to meet at least some of these requirements, and to mention some remaining questions and possibilities (a). The article is followed by discussions submitted at the 12th ARRB conference when this paper was presented. The author's closure follows the discussions.

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• Authors:
  • ALLSOP, R E
• Publication Date: 1985-3

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: p. 3-8
• Serial:
  • Australian Road Research
  • Volume: 15
  • Issue Number: 1
  • Publisher: ARRB
  • ISSN: 0005-0164

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Area traffic signal control; Highway traffic control; Intersections; Itinerary; Mathematical models; Networks; Planning; Queuing; Residential areas; Roads; Route choice; Streets; Traffic engineering; Traffic restraint
• Uncontrolled Terms: Models; Road networks; Selection
• ITRD Terms: 699: Itinerary; 455: Junction; 6473: Mathematical model; 143: Planning; 6594: Queue; 307: Residential area; 1053: Road network; 9072: Selection; 655: Traffic engineering; 633: Traffic restraint
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; I71: Traffic Theory;

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• Accession Number: 00451003
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: ARRB
• Files: ITRD, TRIS, ATRI
• Created Date: Aug 27 2004 9:57PM