Development and Validation of Improved Impedance Functions for Roads with Mixed Traffic Using Taxi GPS Trajectory Data and Simulation
This paper proposes an improved impedance function for roads with mixed traffic. It is known that only limited studies consider the impact of nonmotorized traffic on travel impedance of a road segment, and a comparison of the impedance considering nonmotorized traffic with the classic BPR function,...
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| description | This paper proposes an improved impedance function for roads with mixed traffic. It is known that only limited studies consider the impact of nonmotorized traffic on travel impedance of a road segment, and a comparison of the impedance considering nonmotorized traffic with the classic BPR function, which does not consider the former, is scarce. Most of the previous studies targeted road conditions in developed countries, where the presence of nonmotorized traffic is negligible, and therefore limited efforts have been invested to develop improved impedance function considering mixed traffic. To overcome this limitation, this paper develops an improved impedance function and carries out a case study for a road in the city of Wuhan, China. The improved impedance function explicitly considers the interaction between motorized and nonmotorized traffic. Taxi GPS data from the case study road is used to extract and analyze the travel time of the “probe vehicles” running through the sampled segment at any time during a sampling day. The capacity of the road segment is measured, and the traffic flow of motorized vehicles and nonmotorized vehicles on the segment is counted. Based on the above data, the classic BPR function and the improved one proposed in this paper are calibrated. After comparing and analyzing the observed road impedance based on both analytical and simulation results, the classic BPR function and the proposed impedance function, the proposed impedance function is found to be more accurate to simulate the observed road impedance, with the error reducing from 14.83 s with the classic BPR impedance function to 6.50 s with the improved function. The proposed impedance function possesses a simple structure and high flexibility, and the parameters calibrated in this paper can be applied to similar roads to provide more realistic impedance than the previous ones based on the classic BPR function. The calibrated improved impedance function’s transferability to other similar roads is validated by applying it to another road and the results show that the percentage error between the predicted travel times and the observed ones is only 3.8%. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-9b9c81151f4a4ffba263366cef09180b2025-08-20T02:18:27ZengWileyJournal of Advanced Transportation0197-67292042-31952020-01-01202010.1155/2020/75234237523423Development and Validation of Improved Impedance Functions for Roads with Mixed Traffic Using Taxi GPS Trajectory Data and SimulationFei Zhao0Liping Fu1Ming Zhong2Shaobo Liu3Xudong Wang4Junda Huang5Xiaofeng Ma6Intelligent Transportation Systems Research Center, Wuhan University of Technology, Engineering Research Center of Transportation Safety, Ministry of Education, National Engineering Research Center for Water Transport Safety, 1178 Heping Avenue, Wuhan, Hubei 430063, ChinaIntelligent Transportation Systems Research Center, Wuhan University of Technology, Engineering Research Center of Transportation Safety, Ministry of Education, National Engineering Research Center for Water Transport Safety, 1178 Heping Avenue, Wuhan, Hubei 430063, ChinaIntelligent Transportation Systems Research Center, Wuhan University of Technology, Engineering Research Center of Transportation Safety, Ministry of Education, National Engineering Research Center for Water Transport Safety, 1178 Heping Avenue, Wuhan, Hubei 430063, ChinaIntelligent Transportation Systems Research Center, Wuhan University of Technology, Engineering Research Center of Transportation Safety, Ministry of Education, National Engineering Research Center for Water Transport Safety, 1178 Heping Avenue, Wuhan, Hubei 430063, ChinaIntelligent Transportation Systems Research Center, Wuhan University of Technology, Engineering Research Center of Transportation Safety, Ministry of Education, National Engineering Research Center for Water Transport Safety, 1178 Heping Avenue, Wuhan, Hubei 430063, ChinaIntelligent Transportation Systems Research Center, Wuhan University of Technology, Engineering Research Center of Transportation Safety, Ministry of Education, National Engineering Research Center for Water Transport Safety, 1178 Heping Avenue, Wuhan, Hubei 430063, ChinaIntelligent Transportation Systems Research Center, Wuhan University of Technology, Engineering Research Center of Transportation Safety, Ministry of Education, National Engineering Research Center for Water Transport Safety, 1178 Heping Avenue, Wuhan, Hubei 430063, ChinaThis paper proposes an improved impedance function for roads with mixed traffic. It is known that only limited studies consider the impact of nonmotorized traffic on travel impedance of a road segment, and a comparison of the impedance considering nonmotorized traffic with the classic BPR function, which does not consider the former, is scarce. Most of the previous studies targeted road conditions in developed countries, where the presence of nonmotorized traffic is negligible, and therefore limited efforts have been invested to develop improved impedance function considering mixed traffic. To overcome this limitation, this paper develops an improved impedance function and carries out a case study for a road in the city of Wuhan, China. The improved impedance function explicitly considers the interaction between motorized and nonmotorized traffic. Taxi GPS data from the case study road is used to extract and analyze the travel time of the “probe vehicles” running through the sampled segment at any time during a sampling day. The capacity of the road segment is measured, and the traffic flow of motorized vehicles and nonmotorized vehicles on the segment is counted. Based on the above data, the classic BPR function and the improved one proposed in this paper are calibrated. After comparing and analyzing the observed road impedance based on both analytical and simulation results, the classic BPR function and the proposed impedance function, the proposed impedance function is found to be more accurate to simulate the observed road impedance, with the error reducing from 14.83 s with the classic BPR impedance function to 6.50 s with the improved function. The proposed impedance function possesses a simple structure and high flexibility, and the parameters calibrated in this paper can be applied to similar roads to provide more realistic impedance than the previous ones based on the classic BPR function. The calibrated improved impedance function’s transferability to other similar roads is validated by applying it to another road and the results show that the percentage error between the predicted travel times and the observed ones is only 3.8%.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/7523423 |
| spellingShingle | Fei Zhao Liping Fu Ming Zhong Shaobo Liu Xudong Wang Junda Huang Xiaofeng Ma Development and Validation of Improved Impedance Functions for Roads with Mixed Traffic Using Taxi GPS Trajectory Data and Simulation Journal of Advanced Transportation |
| title | Development and Validation of Improved Impedance Functions for Roads with Mixed Traffic Using Taxi GPS Trajectory Data and Simulation |
| title_full | Development and Validation of Improved Impedance Functions for Roads with Mixed Traffic Using Taxi GPS Trajectory Data and Simulation |
| title_fullStr | Development and Validation of Improved Impedance Functions for Roads with Mixed Traffic Using Taxi GPS Trajectory Data and Simulation |
| title_full_unstemmed | Development and Validation of Improved Impedance Functions for Roads with Mixed Traffic Using Taxi GPS Trajectory Data and Simulation |
| title_short | Development and Validation of Improved Impedance Functions for Roads with Mixed Traffic Using Taxi GPS Trajectory Data and Simulation |
| title_sort | development and validation of improved impedance functions for roads with mixed traffic using taxi gps trajectory data and simulation |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/7523423 |
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