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    Traffic Engineering and Safety

    CE-444
    Spring Semester 2014
    Week # 1
    Introduction to Traffic Engineering and
    Basic Definitions
    Introduction
    • Malik Saqib Mahmood
    • Educational Background
    • Professional Experience
    • Contact info:
    – Phone: 051-90854162
    – Email: [email protected]
    • About Traffic Engineering and Safety Course
    Transportation System
    • Mobility is a basic human need
    • Transportation is everything involved in
    moving either the person or goods from the
    origin to the destination.
    Transportation System
    Planning Engineering
    Traffic Demand
    O/D Flows

    Network Performance
    Demand Analysis
    Vehicle, Driver
    Trip Generation Network Characteristics
    Trip Distribution Equilibrium Traffic Flow
    Mode Choice Capacity Analysis
    Route Choice Queuing
    Geometric Design

    User Cost/Time
    Nonuser Cost
    Pollution
    Indirect Effect
    Transportation Engineering
    • Transportation Facilities
    – Highways
    – Railroad
    – Airport
    – Bus and Subways
    – Seaport
    – Terminal (Multi-modal )
    Transportation Modes
    • Passenger Transportation
    – Auto: short trips, selected end points, low cost
    – Air: long trips, intercity or international travels
    – Mass Transit (light rail, subways): short trips,
    cheap
    – Rail: intercity travel
    Transportation Modes
    • Freight Transportation
    – Truck: point-to-point deliver
    – Air: fast, costly, limited-capacity
    – Waterway: cheap, slow
    – Rail: bulk movement, cheap, little slow, inflexible
    – Pipeline: for gas and oil, inflexible
    Traffic Engineering - Definition
    • Traffic Engineering is the science of measuring
    traffic and travel, the study of basic laws relating
    to traffic flow and generation, and the application
    of this knowledge to the professional practice of
    planning, designing, and operating traffic systems
    to achieve safe and efficient movement of
    persons and goods.
    • Traffic Engineering is a tool to design and
    analyze the roadway infrastructure that results
    in safe, efficient and economical movement.
    Components of Traffic Engineering
    • Basic Components
    – Road users including drivers, cyclists and
    pedestrians
    – Vehicles
    – Road and Highways
    – Control Devices
    Traffic Engineering
    • Traffic Engineering Elements:
    1. Traffic studies and characteristics
    2. Performance evaluation
    3. Facility design
    4. Traffic control (next slide)
    5. Traffic operations
    6. Transportation systems management
    7. Integration of intelligent transportation system
    technologies
    Current Traffic Control On Roads

    • Traffic control in urban areas of


    Pakistan is still the function of traffic
    police
    • A constable’s vision is limited to only
    one city block
    • Role of Traffic Police is NOT to
    control the traffic, but to ENFORCE
    the traffic rules and regulation
    • Traffic Engineering provides effective
    solutions for traffic control on
    roadways
    Basic Definitions
    • Speed: Distance travelled by a vehicle in unit
    time (KM/hr, Mile/hr, m/sec etc.)

    • Volume: Number of vehicles passing in unit


    time per unit road (veh/hr/ln, veh/day)

    • Density: No of vehicle present occupying unit


    space at a particular instant (veh/KM,
    veh/mile)
    Cont ………
    Basic Definitions
    • Flow rate: No of vehicle passing through a
    specific point in unit time (Veh/hr)

    • Travel Time: Time taken by vehicle to travel


    unit distance (min/KM)

    • Headway: Space between successive vehicles


    in terms of time (sec)
    Cont ………
    Basic Definitions
    • Spacing: Inter-vehicular spacing (m/veh)

    • Traffic Stream: Up-stream, Down-stream

    • Rates of flow: It represent flows that exist for


    periods of time less than one hour (veh/hr)
    15min Vol x 4

    Cont ………
    Basic Definitions
    • Capacity: The maximum no of vehicle that can
    pass a road section in unit time (veh/hr)

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