Moving Vehicle Method to Calculate Traffic Flow Characteristics for Erbil 60m Ring Road

Traffic flow characteristics are important factors in the planning and management of highway facilities. Such information is not available in systematic form of the city of Erbil, so this study aims to obtain required data on flow, speed and density accordingly to find the relationship between these...

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Main Authors: Kamal Y. Abdullah, Bafreen Ch. Zero
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Language:English
Published: Erbil Polytechnic University 2023-09-01
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Online Access:https://polytechnic-journal.epu.edu.iq/home/vol12/iss2/17
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description Traffic flow characteristics are important factors in the planning and management of highway facilities. Such information is not available in systematic form of the city of Erbil, so this study aims to obtain required data on flow, speed and density accordingly to find the relationship between these three parameters. Travel time, travel speed and flow due to traffic interaction data are also needed to evaluate the existing levels of service which is necessary for transportation planning and economic analysis, to be done in this field. This study uses the directional distribution of several selected road sections in the city of Erbil to give a complete picture of traffic flow in terms of size, daily and hourly variabilities. It was for this purpose that 60m ring road in Erbil city was chosen. To evaluate the data, software such as (Microsoft Excel, SPSS) were used in-order to develop relationships among each pair of flow type variables (density, speed and flow). Measuring strength of the relationships between speed-density, flow-density and speed-flow should be done. The relation between traffic flows data was found by the R² is applied for all models. The strength of relationships among speed-density, flow-density and speed-flow should be measured. The relation between traffic flows data was found by the R² is applied for all modes. The maximum flow rate in Section 9 is over 9000 pc/hr but range of flow is equal to 7605 pc/hr and range of space mean speed is it among 20 and 55 km/hr at peak hour and highest range of density is among 40 and 160 pc/km.
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spelling doaj-art-4aa7f14837eb4d718d981067a17fd6da2025-08-20T03:20:16ZengErbil Polytechnic UniversityPolytechnic Journal2707-77992023-09-01122158167https://doi.org/10.25156/ptj.v12n1y2022.pp158-167Moving Vehicle Method to Calculate Traffic Flow Characteristics for Erbil 60m Ring RoadKamal Y. Abdullah0Bafreen Ch. Zero1Department of Technical Civil Engineering, Erbil TechnicalEngineering College Erbil Polytechnic UniversityDepartment of Technical HighwayEngineering, Erbil TechnicalEngineering College Erbil Polytechnic University,Traffic flow characteristics are important factors in the planning and management of highway facilities. Such information is not available in systematic form of the city of Erbil, so this study aims to obtain required data on flow, speed and density accordingly to find the relationship between these three parameters. Travel time, travel speed and flow due to traffic interaction data are also needed to evaluate the existing levels of service which is necessary for transportation planning and economic analysis, to be done in this field. This study uses the directional distribution of several selected road sections in the city of Erbil to give a complete picture of traffic flow in terms of size, daily and hourly variabilities. It was for this purpose that 60m ring road in Erbil city was chosen. To evaluate the data, software such as (Microsoft Excel, SPSS) were used in-order to develop relationships among each pair of flow type variables (density, speed and flow). Measuring strength of the relationships between speed-density, flow-density and speed-flow should be done. The relation between traffic flows data was found by the R² is applied for all models. The strength of relationships among speed-density, flow-density and speed-flow should be measured. The relation between traffic flows data was found by the R² is applied for all modes. The maximum flow rate in Section 9 is over 9000 pc/hr but range of flow is equal to 7605 pc/hr and range of space mean speed is it among 20 and 55 km/hr at peak hour and highest range of density is among 40 and 160 pc/km.https://polytechnic-journal.epu.edu.iq/home/vol12/iss2/17 speed,flow,density,traffic flow relationship.
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Moving Vehicle Method to Calculate Traffic Flow Characteristics for Erbil 60m Ring Road
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title Moving Vehicle Method to Calculate Traffic Flow Characteristics for Erbil 60m Ring Road
title_full Moving Vehicle Method to Calculate Traffic Flow Characteristics for Erbil 60m Ring Road
title_fullStr Moving Vehicle Method to Calculate Traffic Flow Characteristics for Erbil 60m Ring Road
title_full_unstemmed Moving Vehicle Method to Calculate Traffic Flow Characteristics for Erbil 60m Ring Road
title_short Moving Vehicle Method to Calculate Traffic Flow Characteristics for Erbil 60m Ring Road
title_sort moving vehicle method to calculate traffic flow characteristics for erbil 60m ring road
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density,
traffic flow relationship.
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