A Reversible Lane System Improvement of Phetchaburi Road

Authors

  • ชาญวิทย์ ยาม่วง
  • วศิน เกียรติโกมล

Keywords:

Fixed Time Interval, Reversible Lane System, VISSIM Simulation

Abstract

This paper presents a reversible lane system improvement of Phetchaburi road from Mitsampan intersection to Asok-Phetchaburi intersection. The length of reversible lane is 280 meter. Currently, this reversible lane system in this study is not effective because it is controlled by traffic policeman that lack knowledge in traffic engineering. Consequently, this research is using the fix time interval to choose a direction that are get permission to use reversible lane and compare the result before and after improvement from VISSIM simulation. When the reversible lane system get improvement by using fix time interval measure. As a result, the throughput vehicle of the selected direction that use reversible lane in morning peak hour at 7:15 – 8:15 a.m. is increase from 2,772 pcu to 3,130 pcu (12.91%) and at 8:15 – 9:15 a.m. is increase from 2,700 pcu to 2,788 pcu (3.26%).

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Published

2020-06-22

How to Cite

[1]
ยาม่วง ช. . . and เกียรติโกมล ว. . ., “A Reversible Lane System Improvement of Phetchaburi Road ”, Eng. & Technol. Horiz., vol. 34, no. 3, pp. 58–64, Jun. 2020.

Issue

Vol. 34 No. 3 (2017): July - September

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Research Articles

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