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Urban Traffic Management
As cities grow, so does the need to improve urban transport system efficiency. The theme Urban Traffic Management explores ways to improve city mobility building upon existing infrastructure and transport systems. The time horizon for possible implementation is typically short to medium. Examples of important research areas are capacity optimisation of road, street and rail networks. Also important are the handling of multimodal traffic flows, and the challenge to prioritise transport options — both in time and space — in a way that improves the overall mobility.
Key words
Bus Rapid Transit (BRT), city mobility, mobility management, congestion mitigation, information technology, wireless communication, signal systems, multimodal traffic management, intelligent transport systems, logistics, urban freight transports
Bus Rapid Transit (BRT), city mobility, mobility management, congestion mitigation, information technology, wireless communication, signal systems, multimodal traffic management, intelligent transport systems, logistics, urban freight transports
Topics covered by the theme typically include:
Travel analysis
Analysis of access to various modes of urban transport
Analysis of transport systems and travel behaviour
Travel behaviour change
Use of wireless infrastructure and applications for traffic analysis
Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS)
Mitigation of road traffic congestion
Macroscopic congestion management
Improvement of multimodal traffic flows at intersections
The role of wireless technologies
Bus Rapid Transit (BRT)
Assessment of BRT performance
Analysis of BRT policies
BRT design and management
Urban freight transports
Research organisations involved in this theme:
Publications within this theme:
- Increasing the capacity of signalized intersections with separate left turn phases
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Research organisation:
CoE Berkeley, USA
Year: 2011
Type: Research article - Macroscopic relations of urban traffic variables: Bifurcations, Multivaluedness and Instability
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Research organisation:
CoE Berkeley, USA
Year: 2011
Type: Research article - A topological route choice model
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Research organisation:
CoE Santiago, Chile
Year: 2011
Type: Research article - Pedestrian arterial and freeway crossing behaviour in Cape Town: Observations and Implications
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Research organisation:
CoE Cape Town, South Africa
Year: 2010
Type: Conference proceedings - Curitiba, the cradle of bus rapid transit
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Research organisation:
CoE Santiago, Chile
Year: 2010
Type: Research article - Design of limited‐stop services for an urban bus corridor with capacity constraints
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Research organisation:
CoE Santiago, Chile
Year: 2010
Type: Research article - Choosing the Right Express Services for a Bus Corridor with Capacity Restrictions
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Research organisation:
CoE Santiago, Chile
Year: 2010
Type: Research article - BRT in Latin America – high capacity and performance, rapid implementation, low cost
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Research organisation:
CoE Santiago, Chile
Year: 2010
Type: Research article - Bi-level programming model and solution method for mixed transportation network design problem
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Research organisation:
CoE Beijing, P. R. China
Year: 2009
Type: Research article - Comparative experimental application of alternative travel diaries in Cape Town and Dar es salaam
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Research organisation:
CoE Cape Town, South Africa
Year: 2009
Type: Conference proceedings - Traffic flow reconstruction using mobile sensors and loop detector data
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Research organisation:
CoE Berkeley, USA
Year: 2008
Type: Research article - Existence of urban macro-scale macroscopic fundamental diagrams: Some experimental findings
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Research organisation:
CoE Berkeley, USA
Year: 2008
Type: Research article - Continuity equation validation for nonhomogeneous traffic
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Research organisation:
CoE New Delhi, India
Year: 2008
Type: Research article - Urban gridlock: Macroscopic modeling and mitigation approaches
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Research organisation:
CoE Berkeley, USA
Year: 2007
Type: Research article - Estimating the increase in emissions associated with induced travel from road capacity expansions and traffic flow improvement projects
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Research organisation:
Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Pennsylvania
Year: 2006
Type: Final Report - Modular Composition of Synchronous Programs: Applications to Traffic Signal Control
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Research organisation:
CoE Berkeley, USA
Year: 2006
Type: Paper - Bus lanes with intermittent priority: Strategy, formulae, and an evaluation
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Research organisation:
CoE Berkeley, USA
Year: 2006
Type: Research article - On the variational theory of traffic flow: well-posedness, duality and applications
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Research organisation:
CoE Berkeley, USA
Year: 2006
Type: Research article - Augmented traffic realities
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Research organisation:
Sektionen för Informationsvetenskap, Högskolan i Halmstad
Year: 2002
Type: Final Report
News
2013-05-16
Urban Freight for Livable Cities Publication
Based on the papers presented in the 2012 international VREF Future Urban Transport Conference, this book aims to make the freight issue more visible,... 2013-01-09
Håkan Frisinger Award 2012 rewards eco-friendly transportation
The Håkan Frisinger Foundation for Transportation Research will be awarding the scholarship for 2012 to Professor Ingemar Denbratt at Chalmers...
Urban Freight for Livable Cities Publication
Based on the papers presented in the 2012 international VREF Future Urban Transport Conference, this book aims to make the freight issue more visible,... 2013-01-09
Håkan Frisinger Award 2012 rewards eco-friendly transportation
The Håkan Frisinger Foundation for Transportation Research will be awarding the scholarship for 2012 to Professor Ingemar Denbratt at Chalmers...
2013-01-08
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