TY - JOUR
T1 - The Empirical Study on the Impact of Road Gradient and Truck Composition on the Toll Road Traffic Performance
AU - Nahry,
AU - Fadillah, Noor Syiffa
N1 - Funding Information:
This research is supported by research funds made available through the Research Fund of PITTA (Publikasi Internasional Terindeks Untuk Tugas Akhir Mahasiswa UI) of Universitas Indonesia, 2018.
Publisher Copyright:
© The Authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2018.
PY - 2018/11/26
Y1 - 2018/11/26
N2 - The Jakarta Outer Ring Road (JORR) is a toll road system that circles the outskirts of Jakarta, where the purpose of this road is to reduce congestion on the street network of the city centre of Jakarta. However, the high composition of trucks in JORR resulted in congestion, and moreover it is suspected that the steep gradient of this road has contributed to this situation. This study aims to investigate the impact of road gradient on the trucks and the overall traffic performance from macroscopic view point. This study is the complement to a similar study that has been done in JORR previously, to confirm the result. The previous study was based on the Vissim simulation, while this paper will be entirely focused on an empirical study. Using the data obtained from 24-hour traffic recording on selected JORR sections that represent various gradients, traffic flow models are generated, and the effect of gradient could be assessed. The speed difference between trucks and non-trucks shows 56.2%~127% gap as the result of different gradient occurred. The overall free flow speed (uf) difference of different gradient is up to 27.3%. This result will benefit to the transport authority to justify the policy concerning the existence of trucks in the traffic flow, particularly in the condition at which trucks are regarded as a culprit of traffic congestion.
AB - The Jakarta Outer Ring Road (JORR) is a toll road system that circles the outskirts of Jakarta, where the purpose of this road is to reduce congestion on the street network of the city centre of Jakarta. However, the high composition of trucks in JORR resulted in congestion, and moreover it is suspected that the steep gradient of this road has contributed to this situation. This study aims to investigate the impact of road gradient on the trucks and the overall traffic performance from macroscopic view point. This study is the complement to a similar study that has been done in JORR previously, to confirm the result. The previous study was based on the Vissim simulation, while this paper will be entirely focused on an empirical study. Using the data obtained from 24-hour traffic recording on selected JORR sections that represent various gradients, traffic flow models are generated, and the effect of gradient could be assessed. The speed difference between trucks and non-trucks shows 56.2%~127% gap as the result of different gradient occurred. The overall free flow speed (uf) difference of different gradient is up to 27.3%. This result will benefit to the transport authority to justify the policy concerning the existence of trucks in the traffic flow, particularly in the condition at which trucks are regarded as a culprit of traffic congestion.
KW - Jakarta Outer Ring Road
KW - Road gradient
KW - Toll road
KW - Truck composition
KW - Trucks
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U2 - 10.1051/e3sconf/20186509003
DO - 10.1051/e3sconf/20186509003
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:85059195289
VL - 65
JO - E3S Web of Conferences
JF - E3S Web of Conferences
SN - 2555-0403
M1 - 09003
T2 - 2018 International Conference on Civil and Environmental Engineering, ICCEE 2018
Y2 - 2 October 2018 through 5 October 2018
ER -