Traffic Flow Study at Majura-Gate Intersection of Surat City

Page 1

GRD Journals | Global Research and Development Journal for Engineering | Emerging Research and Innovations in Civil Engineering (ERICE - 2019) | February 2019

e-ISSN: 2455-5703

Traffic Flow Study at Majura-Gate Intersection of Surat City 1Vaidehi

J. Patel 2Neha D. Solanki 3Ankita J. Patel 4V. G. Yadav 1,2,3 UG Student 4Assistnat Professor 1,2,3,4 Department of Civil Engineering 1,2,3,4 GEC, Surat, Gujarat, India Abstract

Traffic on the existing road is increase due to rapid modernization and industrialization due to extremely growth of vehicles all over the world. Some problems like congestion, delay and pollution remain a big challenge because of this. For continuous movement of vehicles through intersection, efficient traffic signal control is provided at the intersection. Volume, speed and density are the three main parameter of traffic flow. Primary objective of implementing Traffic volume study are designing, planning and improving traffic system. This paper represents the actual traffic behaviour and its characteristics. For which we carried out classified volume count study by Videography method at Majura Gate intersection, Surat, Gujarat, India. Collected data further extracted for the analysis purpose. From the analysis it is concluded that traffic flow influence by flyover-bridge and this flow contains higher percentage of motorcycle, rickshaw and car. Keyword- Volume Count, Road Capacity, Passenger Car Unit __________________________________________________________________________________________________

I. INTRODUCTION The term Traffic congestion influences various aspects of traffic engineering (Pratik et al., 2018). Exponential increase in number of vehicles compared to snail pace improvement of road causes many problems like traffic congestion, high accident rate and insufficient facilities (Neha et al., 2018). Traffic engineering uses various engineering techniques to obtain safe and well organized movement of people, vehicles and goods. Traffic engineering concentrates on planning and designing of road geometry, sidewalks, crosswalks, traffic signs, pavement marking and traffic lights for obstruction less traffic movement. Traffic engineering deals with the useful part of transportation system. Transportation is carrying civilization to a brighter future. While designing any structure it is necessary to calculate the loads coming on it to determine the reinforcement to be provided for safe functioning of the structure. In transportation volume serves the identical purpose. For planning, designing, scheduling, safe operation and development of transportation system the prime requisite is traffic volume. Traffic volume is the number of vehicles passing a section of a roadway at some stage in precise unit of time (Abrar and Rakesh, 2018). Expressing traffic volume as number of vehicles passing a given section of road or traffic lane per unit time will be inappropriate when several types of vehicles with widely varying static and dynamic are comprised in the traffic. The problem of measuring volume of such traffic has been addressed by converting the different types of vehicles into equivalent passenger cars and expressing the volume in terms of Passenger Car Unit (PCU) per hour (Meruga Siva et al., 2017). Intersection Manual count of 15- min intervals used to find out the traffic volume (Raj et al., 2018). The interaction between moving vehicles under such heterogeneous traffic condition is highly complex. Volume is not constant. It increases with time. So a continuous method of calculating volume is matter of great importance for smooth functioning of transportation system if traffic volume isn’t measured continuously then the transportation system may fail and the economic system of the country may additionally face a difficulty. The main objectives of the study are: – To carry out classified traffic volume survey on selected section of city – To study the traffic flow pattern – To determine percentage share of vehicle on road For analysis of Traffic characteristics various traffic studies are carried out. These studies are helpful to decide the geometric design features for safe and efficient traffic flow. The various studies are as follows: 1) Traffic volume study 2) Speed study 3) Spot speed study 4) Speed and delay study 5) Origin and destination study 6) Traffic flow characteristics

All rights reserved by www.grdjournals.com

284


Turn static files into dynamic content formats.

Create a flipbook
Issuu converts static files into: digital portfolios, online yearbooks, online catalogs, digital photo albums and more. Sign up and create your flipbook.