Assessment of Measures for Heavy Vehicles with Macroscopic Traffic Simulation

Abstract

This study aims to develop a macroscopic traffic simulator that can incorporate the characteristics of heavy vehicles for investigating the effects of urban transport measures. The performance of the simulator is identified using a real road network, and then the simulator is applied to a test road network for assessing the influence of access restrictions of heavy vehicles to city centre. Results showed that total travel times and NO_x emissions reduce in the restricted area, but increase in the whole road network. The importance of selecting the areas where access restrictions are implemented is also identified.