中国物理B ›› 2016, Vol. 25 ›› Issue (8): 88901-088901.doi: 10.1088/1674-1056/25/8/088901

• INTERDISCIPLINARY PHYSICS AND RELATED AREAS OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY • 上一篇    下一篇

Influence of bus stop with left-turn lines between two adjacent signalized intersections

Ming-Bao Pang(庞明宝), Lan-Hang Ye(叶兰杭), Ya-Nan Pei(裴亚男)   

  1. School of Civil and Transportation, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin 300401, China
  • 收稿日期:2016-02-17 修回日期:2016-04-22 出版日期:2016-08-05 发布日期:2016-08-05
  • 通讯作者: Ming-Bao Pang E-mail:pmbpgy@sina.com
  • 基金资助:

    Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 50478088) and the Natural Science Foundation of Hebei Province, China (Grant No. E2015202266).

Influence of bus stop with left-turn lines between two adjacent signalized intersections

Ming-Bao Pang(庞明宝), Lan-Hang Ye(叶兰杭), Ya-Nan Pei(裴亚男)   

  1. School of Civil and Transportation, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin 300401, China
  • Received:2016-02-17 Revised:2016-04-22 Online:2016-08-05 Published:2016-08-05
  • Contact: Ming-Bao Pang E-mail:pmbpgy@sina.com
  • Supported by:

    Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 50478088) and the Natural Science Foundation of Hebei Province, China (Grant No. E2015202266).

摘要:

Based on the symmetric two-lane Nagel-Schreckenberg (STNS) model, a three-lane cellular automaton model between two intersections containing a bus stop with left-turning buses is established in which model the occurrences of vehicle accidents are taken into account. The characteristics of traffic flows with different ratios of left-turn lines are discussed via the simulation experiments. The results indicate that the left-turn lines have more negative effects on capacity, accident rate as well as delay if the stop is located close to the intersections, where the negative effect in a near-side stop is more severe than that in a far-side one. The range of appropriate position for a bus stop without the bottleneck effect becomes more and more narrow with the increase of the ratio of left-turn bus lines. When the inflow is small, a short signal cycle and a reasonable offset are beneficial. When the inflow reaches or exceeds the capacity, a longer signal cycle is helpful. But if the stop position is inappropriate, the increase of cycle fails in reducing the negative effect of left-turning buses and the effectiveness of offset is weakened.

关键词: cellular automata (CA) model, bus stop, left-turn bus line, vehicle accident

Abstract:

Based on the symmetric two-lane Nagel-Schreckenberg (STNS) model, a three-lane cellular automaton model between two intersections containing a bus stop with left-turning buses is established in which model the occurrences of vehicle accidents are taken into account. The characteristics of traffic flows with different ratios of left-turn lines are discussed via the simulation experiments. The results indicate that the left-turn lines have more negative effects on capacity, accident rate as well as delay if the stop is located close to the intersections, where the negative effect in a near-side stop is more severe than that in a far-side one. The range of appropriate position for a bus stop without the bottleneck effect becomes more and more narrow with the increase of the ratio of left-turn bus lines. When the inflow is small, a short signal cycle and a reasonable offset are beneficial. When the inflow reaches or exceeds the capacity, a longer signal cycle is helpful. But if the stop position is inappropriate, the increase of cycle fails in reducing the negative effect of left-turning buses and the effectiveness of offset is weakened.

Key words: cellular automata (CA) model, bus stop, left-turn bus line, vehicle accident

中图分类号:  (Land transportation)

  • 89.40.Bb
89.40.-a (Transportation) 02.60.-x (Numerical approximation and analysis)