EFFICIENCY AND SAFETY EVALUATION OF UNCONVENTIONAL INTERSECTIONS

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Najaf Pooya; Pulugurtha Srinivas S.

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Seminar: NATIONAL CONGRESS ON CIVIL ENGINEERING
Year:2014 | Issue:8

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EFFICIENCY AND SAFETY EVALUATION OF UNCONVENTIONAL INTERSECTIONS

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Najaf Pooya | Pulugurtha Srinivas S. | Issue Writer Certificate

Keywords

TRAFFIC SIMULATION

UNCONVENTIONAL INTERSECTIONS

TRAFFIC CONFLICTS

MEASURES OF EFFECTIVENESS

Abstract

THE CONVENTIONAL COUNTERMEASURES SUCH AS PRE-TIMED, SEMI-ACTUATED, AND ACTUATED SIGNALS, SIGNAL COORDINATIONSYSTEMS, MULTIPLE LEFT-TURN LANES, AND INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS ARE NOT ABLE TO OVERCOME THE SAFETY ANDOPERATIONAL PROBLEMS OF TRAFFIC CONGESTION (E.G., DELAY, FUEL CONSUMPTION, CRASHES, AND POLLUTION) IN MANY URBAN ANDSUBURBAN AREAS. THE UNCONVENTIONAL DESIGNS HAVE THEREFORE ATTRACTED ENGINEERS’ ATTENTION AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO SOLVETHESE PROBLEMS. TWO MAIN OBJECTIVES OF THE UNCONVENTIONAL DESIGNS ARE REDUCING DELAY AND THE NUMBER OF CONFLICTPOINTS. THE UNCONVENTIONAL ALTERNATIVES MAY REDUCE THE NUMBER OF CONFLICT POINTS BY RE-ROUTING SOME LEFT-TURNS. ITIS, HOWEVER, VITAL TO KNOW WHETHER THEY CAN IMPROVE SAFETY BY REDUCING THE NUMBER AND INTENSITY OF TRAFFIC CONFLICTSBETWEEN VEHICLES. THIS RESEARCH FOCUSES ON EVALUATING THE EFFICIENCY AND ESTIMATING THE NUMBER AND INTENSITY OFCONFLICTS BETWEEN VEHICLES (AS A SURROGATE SAFETY MEASURE) FOR SIX MOST COMMON UNCONVENTIONAL INTERSECTION(UNSIGNALIZED MEDIAN U-TURN, SIGNALIZED MEDIAN U-TURN, SUPER STREET, BOWTIE, FORWARD JUGHANDLE, AND REVERSEJUGHANDLE) AND THREE CONVENTIONAL INTERSECTION (PRE-TIMED, OPTIMIZED, AND ACTUATED) DESIGNS BY SIMULATING THE REALWORLD TRAFFIC INFORMATION USING VISSIM, SYNCHRO AND SURROGATE SAFETY ASSESSMENT MODEL (SSAM) SOFTWARE.ACCORDING TO THE FINAL RESULTS, PRE-TIMED CONVENTIONAL INTERSECTION HAS THE WORST PERFORMANCE, WHILE UNSIGNALIZEDAND SIGNALIZED MEDIAN U-TURN INTERSECTIONS HAVE THE BEST PERFORMANCE (I.E., LOWEST AVERAGE DELAY, HIGHEST AVERAGESPEED, AND LOWEST NUMBER OF CONFLICTS, EXCEPT THEIR HIGH CONFLICTS’ INTENSITY AND THEIR LONG TRAVELLED DISTANCES).FURTHERMORE, FORWARD AND REVERSE JUGHANDLES ARE SAFEST DESIGNS. IN ADDITION, SUPER STREETS CANNOT BE APPROPRIATEDESIGN ALTERNATIVES DUE TO THEIR LOW AVERAGE SPEED, HIGH AVERAGE DELAY, AND HIGH NUMBER OF CONFLICTS.

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Najaf, Pooya, & Pulugurtha, Srinivas S.. (2014). EFFICIENCY AND SAFETY EVALUATION OF UNCONVENTIONAL INTERSECTIONS. NATIONAL CONGRESS ON CIVIL ENGINEERING. SID. https://sid.ir/paper/946871/en

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Najaf Pooya, Pulugurtha Srinivas S.. EFFICIENCY AND SAFETY EVALUATION OF UNCONVENTIONAL INTERSECTIONS. 2014. Available from: https://sid.ir/paper/946871/en

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Pooya Najaf, and Srinivas S. Pulugurtha, “EFFICIENCY AND SAFETY EVALUATION OF UNCONVENTIONAL INTERSECTIONS,” presented at the NATIONAL CONGRESS ON CIVIL ENGINEERING. 2014, [Online]. Available: https://sid.ir/paper/946871/en

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