Operational Analysis of Traffic flow Using Microscopic Simulation –Evaluating and Analyzing Tartous City’s CBD-


Abstract in English

The tools of evaluation and operational analyze for traffic flow are changeable from each other. Every country has its own model. The technology revolution has change these tools. In this paper, we use one of the famous model in traffic analyze field. The Gipps Model, which known by the application of Traffic Ware Collection (Synchro- Simtraffic). We use Synchro 9.0 for the operational analyze depending on the High Way Capacity Manuel 2010 (HCM 2010) mythology. Then we use the Gipps model to evaluate the study area depending on microscopic criteria, which are Saturation flow, speed, headway and delay. After the operational analyze and microscopic evaluation, we choose two parameters to compare and estimate the performance of the network. Speed and Delay are the main parameters of comparison. According to speed and delay parameters, we determined the Level of Service (LOS) and a reflection of the field traffic flow. According to these promising results, we recommended analyzer to use both model in the operational analyze and evaluation of traffic flow.

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