Since the estimation and provision of accurate travel speed or time information are essential for proper traffic management and successful ITS deployment, authors tried to identify the best detector locations for relatively long urban links. In most US cities, speed information is generally from loop detectors. In general, however, the data obtained loop detectors in freeways can be a good yardstick for representing the current travel speed and traffic condition. For arterials, however, speed estimation is not as e asy since some variant factors of arterials must also be considered. Factors considered included the following: number of lanes, linklen gth, green time, speed limit, and traffic volumes. With the help of CORSIM traffic simulation, it was found that the optimal detecto r location was mostly related to link length and green time, although the other factors of number of lanes, traffic volumes, and speed limits were not negligible. Conclusively, for relatively long links, approximately 2,000 ft in length, the optimal detector loc ations were identified to be about 200 ft from downstream intersection, for diverse green times of 20, 30, 40 and 50 seconds, respective vely. However, with the increase of link lengths, optimal locations were more dependent on green times. The detailed relationship between optimal detector placement and various link lengths/green times was shown. Some limitations and future research agenda were als o discussed.


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    Title :

    Optimal detector location for estimating link travel speed in urban arterial roads


    Additional title:

    KSCE J Civ Eng


    Contributors:
    Oh, Sungho (author) / Choi, Keechoo (author)

    Published in:

    Publication date :

    2004-05-01


    Size :

    7 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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