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Effects of turning and through lane sharing on traffic performance at intersections

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  • Li, Xiang
  • Sun, Jian-Qiao

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Turning vehicles strongly influence traffic flows at intersections. Effective regulation of turning vehicles is important to achieve better traffic performance. This paper studies the impact of lane sharing and turning signals on traffic performance at intersections by using cellular automata. Both right-turn and left-turn lane sharing are studied. Interactions between vehicles and pedestrians are considered. The transportation efficiency, road safety and energy economy are the traffic performance metrics. Extensive simulations are carried out to study the traffic performance indices. It is observed that shared turning lanes and permissive left-turn signal improve the transportation efficiency and reduce the fuel consumption in most cases, but the safety is usually sacrificed. It is not always beneficial for the through vehicles when they are allowed to be in the turning lanes.

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  • Li, Xiang & Sun, Jian-Qiao, 2016. "Effects of turning and through lane sharing on traffic performance at intersections," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 444(C), pages 622-640.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:phsmap:v:444:y:2016:i:c:p:622-640
    DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2015.10.052
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