• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.103-113
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• 2013

Shock wave model describes the propagation speed of kinematic waves in traffic flow. It was first presented by Lighthill and Whitham and has been deployed to solve many traffic problems. A recent paper pointed out that there are some traffic situations in which shock waves are not observable in the field, whereas the model predicts the existence of waves. The paper attempted to identify how such a counterintuitive conclusion results from the L-W model, and resolved the problem by deriving a new asymptotical shock wave model. Although the asymptotical model successfully eliminated the paradox of the L-W model, the validation of the new model is confined within the realm of the deceleration flow situation since the model was derived under such constraint. The purpose of this paper is to derive the remaining counter asymptotical shock wave model for acceleration traffic flow. For this, the vehicle trajectories in a time-space diagram modified to accommodate the continuously increased speed at every instant in such a way that the relationship between the spacing from the preceding vehicle and the speed of the following vehicle strictly follows Greenshield's model. To verify the validity of the suggested model, it was initially implemented to a constant flow where no shock wave exists, and the results showed that there exists no imaginary shock wave in a homogeneous flow. Numerical applications of the new model showed that the shock wave speeds of the asymptotical model for the acceleration flow tend to lean far toward the forward direction consistently. This means that the asymptotical models performs in a systematically different way for acceleration and for declaration flows. Since the output difference among the models is so distinct and systematic, further study on identifying which model is more applicable to an empirical site is recommended.

• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.99-112
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• 1998

국가경제의 기반시설인 지역간 고속도로와는 달리 도시고속도로는 도시내 교통을 담당하는 교통시설로서 대부분의 도시에서 건설중이거나 운용 중에 있다. 연속류 도로라는 시설측면을 지역간 고속도로와 비슷하나 이용주체, 차량구성비, 정시성, 제한속도 등 그 성격에는 다소 차이가 있을 것으로 판단된다. 이런 이유에서 현재 도시고속도로의 계획이나 운영에 대한 지침이 지역간 고속도로의 계획 및 운영에 대한 지침과 동일시 되고 있다는 점은 불합리한 것으로 판단된다. 그러므로, 본 연구에서는 도시고속도로의 계획과 운영에 대한 지침을 마련하기 위해 현재 운영중인 대구신천대로를 대상으로 교통류특성 등 기초적 연구를 수행하였다. 연구결과를 간략하게 나타내면 다음과 같다. . 교통류 모형분석에서 기존의 Greenshield 모형이 설명력 90%이상을 나타냈다. . 승용차환산계수 분석에서 중형차량이 1.16, 대형차량이 1.47로 분석되었다. . 용량분석에서 최대관측교통량은 4,684pcphpl, 차두시간분석은 2,432pcphpl, 교통류 모형에서는 2,422pcphpl로 분석되어, 대구신천대로의 서비스용량은 2,300pcphpl에 가까운 것으로 판단되며, 차로폭, 측방여유폭에 따른 보정으로 이상적 조건에서의 용량은 약 2,400pcphpl로 분석되었다. 이 결과는 도시고속도로가 지역간 고속도로의 기본교통용량 2,200pcphpl보다 약 200대 정도 높을 것으로 추정된다.

• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.7-29
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• 1996

Traffic flow characteristics is analysed on eight multi-lane roads which are unsignalized in urban areas. Data of traffic flow rates by classification and average speed were gathered every ten minutes interval for twenty-four hours. Machine (NC-90A) was used to acquire the field data. The major purpose of this study is to build up speed-density models on urban arterial roads. Five different kinds of models were tested. Those models are Greenshields' model, Greenberg's model, modified Greenberg's model, Underwood's model and Drake's model. The modified Greenberg's model fits best at six points and the Greenshield's model fits best two points out of eight points. The breakpoint(Kb) of modified Greenberg's model is between 10 and 32 pcphpl. Capacity drawn from speed-volume relationships were appeared to be arround 2,000 and 2,200 pcphpl at the Hannam Bridge and the Hannam Overpass and 1,100 and 1,700 pcphpl at Namsan Tunnel(No1) and the beginning point of Gyeong-Bu Expressway.

• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.26 no.3
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• pp.179-186
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• 2008

It is crucial in traffic flow management to maintain productivity and the traffic stability at the same time especially under congested traffic conditions. This issue has not been explicitly addressed under the intelligent transportation system environments. However, the ubiquitous transportation system environments make it possible to collect the data for each vehicle's position and velocity and to perform more sophisticated traffic flow management at individual vehicle or platoon level through V2V and V2I communications. In this paper, a preventive traffic flow management scheme is proposed, in which the objective is to maintain traffic flow stability while the productivity of the system is not decreased. The management scheme is proposed based on Greenshield's model because it is simple and easy to handle. It is considered that further research should be performed to evaluate the various traffic flow models.

• International Journal of Highway Engineering
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.119-126
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• 2014

PURPOSES: Used in transportation planning and traffic engineering, almost traffic simulation tools have input variable values optimized by overseas traffic flow attribution because they are almost developed in overseas country. Thus, model calibration appropriated for internal traffic flow attribution is needed to improve reliability of simulation method. METHODS : In this study, the traffic flow model calibration is based on expressways. For model calibration, it needs to define each expressway link according to attribution, thus it is classified by design speed, geometric conditions and number of lanes. And modified greenshield model is used as traffic flow model. RESULTS : The result of the traffic model calibration indicates that internal congested density is lower than overseas. And the result of analysis according to the link attribution indicates that the more design speed and number of lanes increase, the lower the minimum speed, the higher the congested density. CONCLUSIONS: In the traffic simulation tool developed in overseas, the traffic flow is different as design speed and number of lanes, but road segment don't affect traffic flow. Therefore, these results need to apply reasonably to internal traffic simulation method.

• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.26 no.5
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• pp.73-80
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• 2008

ALINEA algorithm, which is one of the best on-ramp metering algorithms, was designed to control the traffic volume from on-ramp in order to maintain the optimal occupancy rate of the detectors installed downstream of the merge area. But, the reliability of occupancy rate estimated from the loop detectors, which are used most commonly in Korea, is relatively lower than other parameters such as speed and volume. Moreover, because occupancy rate depends on the length of loop detectors and site, lots of calibration work is required whenever they are installed in order to estimate the occupancy rate. Therefore, there exists room for improvement of ALINEA algorithm because only occupancy rate having some problems is considered as a control parameter in ALINEA algorithm. Practically it is difficult to measure or perceive the occupancy rate for traffic engineers and drivers. On the other hand, speed can be good alternative which can overcome the defect induced by using occupancy. In this study, occupancy based ALINEA algorithm is converted to speed based ALINEA assuming the linear relationship between density and speed.