Traffic Interactions between Motorized Vehicles and Nonmotorized Vehicles near a Bus Stop
Publication: Journal of Transportation Engineering
Volume 135, Issue 11
Abstract
This paper studies traffic features in a mixed traffic flow composed of motorized vehicles and nonmotorized vehicles near a bus stop within a completely different framework. Our work has taken the nonlane based behaviors of nonmotorized vehicles into account, which has seldom been considered in previous works. We have investigated flow rates as well as passenger transport capacity of the system. The traffic state diagram and the spatiotemporal pattern are presented as the inflow rates of motorized vehicles and nonmotorized vehicles change. A nonmonotonic change of passenger transport capacity is also identified at specific parameters. The influence of parameters such as stopped time of buses is discussed. These results are expected to shed some light on the management and design of urban mixed traffic systems.
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Acknowledgments
We are thankful for anonymous reviewers’ useful comments and good advice. We thank Dr. Xiao-Bao Yang and others for their help in data investigation. This paper is financially supported by the 973 Program (Grant No. UNSPECIFIED2006CB705500), and project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. NNSFC70631001, NNSFC70701004, and NNSFC70501004).
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Journal of Transportation Engineering
Volume 135 • Issue 11 • November 2009
Pages: 894 - 906
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© 2009 ASCE.
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Received: Oct 10, 2008
Accepted: Apr 14, 2009
Published online: Apr 16, 2009
Published in print: Nov 2009
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