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Fangqiang Lu
Xuewu Chen
School of Transportation
Southeast University
Nanjing, China
e-mail: lufangqiang@seu.edu.cn
School of Transportation
Southeast University
Nanjing, China
e-mail: chenxuewu@seu.edu.cn
This paper compares the speed dispersion characteristic
between Airport freeway in the east of China and A20
freeway in the Netherlands. Then, we analyze the three main
factors of speed dispersion influencing on traffic safety. In
the end, conclusions and further study are provided.
II.
DATE COLLECTION
I.
INTRODUCTION
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III.
ASD (km/h)
30
20
10
0
7:00
n 1
v v
Where
point.
i =1
B. Data analysis
To get the comparable data, 3 hours data is selected from
the obtained data on the Airport freeway and A20 freeway
respectively. The rush hour on Airport freeway is
7:30~8:30am, while it is 7:00~8:00am on A20 freeway. So
the data utilized in this study was as followed: (a)
7:30~10:30am, 6th July 2006 on Airport freeway; (b)
7:00~10:00am, 22nd June 2005 on A20 freeway. 1 minute
was used as statistical interval for each lane, so there are 180
data points on each lane.
Lane0
Lane1
A D S (k m /h )
30
20
10
T ime
8:00
8:30
9:00
9:30
8:30
9:00
9:30
10:00
T ime
0
7:30
8:00
(1)
n 1
40
7:30
i +1
ASD =
Lane0
Lane2
40
10:00
10:30
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8
6
4
2
0
4
10
12
14
16
18
20
22
24
26
28 >30
ASD(km/h)
Safety level
ASD (km/h)
<9
9~11
>11
Freeway
Airport
freeway
A20
freeway
IV.
Level a
Level b
Level c
27
(15%)
26
(14.5%)
176
(97.7%)
175
(97.2%)
26
(14.4%)
22
(12.2)
3
(1.7%)
2
(1.1%)
127
(70.6%)
132
(73.3%)
1
(0.6%)
3
(1.7%)
V.
REASONS
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[1]
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
This research has been carried out as a part of the SinoDutch cooperation on Intelligent Transport Systems, and
been supported by the project of 2008 Suzhou Technical
exclusive program-Railway
transportation program.
(No.ZXJ0804) This cooperation took place under the
Memorandum of Understanding signed by the Dutch
Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management
and the Ministry of Communications of the People's
Republic of China.
The comments and suggestions of Chen Xuewu and
Wang Hao are gratefully acknowledged.
REFERENCES
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