Title :
Activity based highway capacity analysis: a case study
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Mech. Eng., California Univ., Berkeley, CA, USA
Abstract :
The activity based theory of traffic flow is applied to evaluate highway capacity for four different concepts of automated vehicles in the high occupancy vehicle (HOV) lane of the Houston Katy Highway. Three increasing patterns of traffic demand are considered. SmartCap, a meso-scale software tool developed in the California PATH program, was used to simulate the highway behavior. Simulation results are discussed
Keywords :
automated highways; digital simulation; software packages; California PATH program; Houston Katy Highway; SmartCap; activity based highway capacity analysis; automated vehicles; high occupancy vehicle lane; highway behavior; meso-scale software tool; traffic demand; traffic flow; Automated highways; Computer aided software engineering; Mechanical engineering; Road transportation; Road vehicles; Sampling methods; Software tools; Space vehicles; Traffic control; Velocity control;
Conference_Titel :
Intelligent Transportation System, 1997. ITSC '97., IEEE Conference on
Conference_Location :
Boston, MA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-4269-0
DOI :
10.1109/ITSC.1997.660467
