THE BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS ON A NEW TYPE WEAVING SECTION

Abstract

The purpose of this research, it is analytically the interrelations between the traffic flow characteristics that include traffic density, rate of flow, and speed (k, q, and u) into completely congestion traffic conditions. This study investigates the macroscopic models of traffic flow characteristics on a new weaving section on the Taiwan National Freeway Systems, focusing on the interrelations between the traffic speed, density, and rate of flow of the congestion traffic conditions. The analysis based on these driver behaviors includes 100% lane-changing and 65.22% weaving activities. The results for this study show the fundamental interrelation of traffic flow characteristics on the completely congestion traffic flow condition similar to Greenshield model and showing no influence on lane changing and weaving activities. These regression models concludes that the critical density is 55.74 vehicles per kilometer, the speed is 34.29 kilometer per hour, and the maximum rate of flow (capacity) is 1854 vehicles per hour per lane, respectively. These results represent that the value of traffic speed and rate of flow are same the Highway Capacity Manual (HCM) and the traffic density is more then the HCM.