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Apr 26, 2012
Ways and Methods to Make Urban Expressway Play Its Full Role
Publication: International Conference on Transportation Engineering 2009
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In recent years, with the rapid increase in traffic demand, a new upsurge in the construction of urban expressway is in the making in China. The problem of how to make urban expressway play its full role and make it helpful to the development of urban traffic needs to be researched urgently. In view of this, the paper systematically analyses existent problems and points out measures for improvement from several aspects: theory and method of urban expressway layout planning and ramp design standard, the connection of urban expressway and conventional road, integrated control of urban road network, technique method of expressway management. On this basis, the author proposes researching focus of urban expressway: analysis of traffic flow characteristics of expressway in China, improvement of expressway layout planning method and design standard, enhancing the technologies of information collection and traffic control, and so on.
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© 2009 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Published online: Apr 26, 2012
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ASCE Technical Topics:
- Business management
- Construction engineering
- Construction methods
- Design (by type)
- Engineering fundamentals
- Highway and road design
- Highway and road management
- Highway transportation
- Highways and roads
- Infrastructure
- Management methods
- Practice and Profession
- Traffic analysis
- Traffic engineering
- Transportation engineering
- Urban and regional development
- Urban areas
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College of Traffic and Transportation, Southwest Jiaotong University, P.O. Box 610031, Chengdu, China, Erhuanlu Beiyiduan ST 111. E-mail: [email protected]
College of Traffic and Transportation, Southwest Jiaotong University, P.O. Box 610031, Chengdu, China, Erhuanlu Beiyiduan ST 111. E-mail: [email protected]
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