Effect of complex traffic situation on route choice behavior and driver stress in Residential areas
Keywords:
Traffic management, pedestriansAbstract
A traffic management system is the key to better transportation in terms of economics, safety, comfortability, time saving etc. A traffic management system ensures safety of not only those who are traveling through a vehicle but also to pedestrians crossing road. The work is mainly focused in analysing the volume of traffic by the means of a software and manual count on the two types of road, i.e. broad lane and service lane. This work includes use of the software Picomixer STA (Smart Traffic Analyzer) for the traffic volume count of different types of vehicle categorized in light vehicles (Cars, SUVs etc.), medium loading vehicles (trucks, mini bus) and heavy vehicles (trailers, big trucks etc.). Due to the limitation of the software to detect the small vehicles like, auto rickshaw and motorcycles, manual counting method is also utilized. It is seen that, in day time and night time, traffic reaches its peak and in the middle day hours, it remains light and medium on the broad lane. This trend affects the rush in service lane as well and follows the similar trend. Increase in traffic and high signal halt timings makes drivers to choose the alternate path of service lane, thus increasing the rush in narrow service lane and making the risks of accidents go high. It was found that longer durations of signal halts are to be considered as the key reason to choose service lane. The reduction of signal timing can affect in the normal usage of service lane and broad lane with ease in traffic management.
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