MODELING FUNDAMENTAL DIAGRAM WITH EMPIRICAL TRAFFIC DATA UNDER DIFFERENT ROAD GEOMETRY AND TRAFFIC OPERATING CONDITIONS

All praise is due to the Almighty, the most merciful and the most beneficent. I would like to express deepest gratitude and indebtedness to my supervisor, Dr. Md. Hadiuzzaman, Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, BUET, Dhaka for his guidance, encouragement and continuous support th...

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Autore principale: KHAN, MD. AMIR HOSSAIN
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description All praise is due to the Almighty, the most merciful and the most beneficent. I would like to express deepest gratitude and indebtedness to my supervisor, Dr. Md. Hadiuzzaman, Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, BUET, Dhaka for his guidance, encouragement and continuous support throughout the progress of the work. Sincere appreciation goes to the members of my M.Sc. defense committee: Dr. Alamgir Mojibul Hoque, Dr. Md. Mizanur Rahman, Dr Mohammed Russedul Islam for their thoughtful questions, valuable comments and suggestions. My deep appreciations and thanks are also extended to Colonel Shah Md Muniruzzaman, Head of the Department of Civil Engineering, MIST. I also convey my gratitude to all members of Military Institute of Science and Technology, Mirpur, Dhaka. I am also thankful to Captain Imran, Lecturer, Department of Civil Engineering, MIST and Nazmul Haque, Research Assistant, Department of Civil Engineering, BUET for their extensive support and help. Finally, I like to express my profound gratitude to my parents, wife and children for their love, continuing support, encouragement and sacrifice without which this study would have been impossible. May Almighty Allah bless us and be with us always. iv
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spelling oai:localhost:123456789-4002019-01-16T03:59:07Z MODELING FUNDAMENTAL DIAGRAM WITH EMPIRICAL TRAFFIC DATA UNDER DIFFERENT ROAD GEOMETRY AND TRAFFIC OPERATING CONDITIONS KHAN, MD. AMIR HOSSAIN Fundamental Diagram Model, Heterogeneous Traffic Condition, Speed-Density Relationship All praise is due to the Almighty, the most merciful and the most beneficent. I would like to express deepest gratitude and indebtedness to my supervisor, Dr. Md. Hadiuzzaman, Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, BUET, Dhaka for his guidance, encouragement and continuous support throughout the progress of the work. Sincere appreciation goes to the members of my M.Sc. defense committee: Dr. Alamgir Mojibul Hoque, Dr. Md. Mizanur Rahman, Dr Mohammed Russedul Islam for their thoughtful questions, valuable comments and suggestions. My deep appreciations and thanks are also extended to Colonel Shah Md Muniruzzaman, Head of the Department of Civil Engineering, MIST. I also convey my gratitude to all members of Military Institute of Science and Technology, Mirpur, Dhaka. I am also thankful to Captain Imran, Lecturer, Department of Civil Engineering, MIST and Nazmul Haque, Research Assistant, Department of Civil Engineering, BUET for their extensive support and help. Finally, I like to express my profound gratitude to my parents, wife and children for their love, continuing support, encouragement and sacrifice without which this study would have been impossible. May Almighty Allah bless us and be with us always. iv Fundamental diagram (FD), a graphical representation of the relation among traffic flow, speed, and density, has been the foundation of traffic flow theory, hence contributes to understanding transportation engineering for many years. For example, the analysis of traffic flow dynamics relies on input from this FD to find development, propagation and dissipation of congestion. Moreover, traffic engineers can also use the FD to determine the traffic flow characteristics so that a highway and its facility can be evaluated over time and space. Underlying these importance, FD corresponding to relation between speed and density; which roughly correlates to drivers’ speed choices under varying car-following distances, is used for this study. Since reported traffic stream models are mainly developed for homogeneous traffic conditions, they may not be directly suitable for the traffic condition of Bangladesh which shows weak lane discipline and heterogeneous in nature. From broad literature, hardly any studies have been found to focus this issue especially in Bangladesh. Only a very few studies have been reported from India, which is not sufficient to justifiably represent the traffic scenario in Bangladesh. In this situation, the present study investigates the characteristics of speed-density FD i.e. its shape and structure, for different roadway geometry and traffic operating conditions comprises both non-lane-based and heterogeneous traffic of Bangladesh. It also investigates the flow parameters for stated traffic condition. For this study, 6 different cases have been considered. Traffic data is collected from 12 different locations of 3 major highways of Bangladesh. Data collection is done through video recording which is further processed by image processing technique. To investigate the structure of FD, the speed-density plots of field data for different locations are fitted with six established FD models namely: linear, 2nd degree polynomial, 3rd degree polynomial, exponential, 2nd degree exponential and logarithmic. From this investigation, it reveals that 2nd degree exponential structure is the best fitted FD model for most of the cases under prevailing traffic condition. It is also found that, free-flow speed tends to decrease dramatically if there is no footpath or shoulder and presence of market along the road-side. It is also found that if the free-flow speed decrease, the jam density is increased. 2019-01-16T03:59:07Z 2019-01-16T03:59:07Z 2017-12 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/400 en application/pdf DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING
spellingShingle Fundamental Diagram Model, Heterogeneous Traffic Condition, Speed-Density Relationship
KHAN, MD. AMIR HOSSAIN
MODELING FUNDAMENTAL DIAGRAM WITH EMPIRICAL TRAFFIC DATA UNDER DIFFERENT ROAD GEOMETRY AND TRAFFIC OPERATING CONDITIONS
title MODELING FUNDAMENTAL DIAGRAM WITH EMPIRICAL TRAFFIC DATA UNDER DIFFERENT ROAD GEOMETRY AND TRAFFIC OPERATING CONDITIONS
title_full MODELING FUNDAMENTAL DIAGRAM WITH EMPIRICAL TRAFFIC DATA UNDER DIFFERENT ROAD GEOMETRY AND TRAFFIC OPERATING CONDITIONS
title_fullStr MODELING FUNDAMENTAL DIAGRAM WITH EMPIRICAL TRAFFIC DATA UNDER DIFFERENT ROAD GEOMETRY AND TRAFFIC OPERATING CONDITIONS
title_full_unstemmed MODELING FUNDAMENTAL DIAGRAM WITH EMPIRICAL TRAFFIC DATA UNDER DIFFERENT ROAD GEOMETRY AND TRAFFIC OPERATING CONDITIONS
title_short MODELING FUNDAMENTAL DIAGRAM WITH EMPIRICAL TRAFFIC DATA UNDER DIFFERENT ROAD GEOMETRY AND TRAFFIC OPERATING CONDITIONS
title_sort modeling fundamental diagram with empirical traffic data under different road geometry and traffic operating conditions
topic Fundamental Diagram Model, Heterogeneous Traffic Condition, Speed-Density Relationship
url http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/400
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