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http://dx.doi.org/10.12652/Ksce.2011.31.2D.203

Effectiveness Analysis of Lane Balancing in Urban Areas  

Chang, Iljoon (경원대학교 도시계획학과 교통전공)
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KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research / v.31, no.2D, 2011 , pp. 203-208 More about this Journal
Abstract
Traffic demand is continuously increasing due to the development of urban areas in Korea. To cope with this, many efforts have been done including constructions of new roadways and increasing the number of lanes of the existing roadways. Those efforts, however, have been performed for only a short segment of target links having similar traffic characteristics. As a result, most urban cities experience bottle-neck phenomena which lead decreasing flow speed and increasing possibilities of accidents. Thus, this study aims to analyze problems of bottle-neck phenomena and effects of balancing number of lanes along the same corridor having similar traffic characteristics. For this, Route 32 passing the city of Daejeon in Korea has been selected as a case study, and a micro-simulation tool, VISSIM, has been adopted for the analysis. The results show that balanced number of lanes along the same corridor with similar traffic characteristics can increase flow speeds and enhance safety.
Keywords
traffic safety; traffic flow; delay; lane balancing;
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