Ahmedabad: If you calculate the actual speed of vehicles on Jalan Ahmedabad, traffic researchers argue, measurements must be made in connection with the motorcycle equivalent unit (Meus), instead of a passenger car (PCU).
In the West, where city streets are dominated by cars, traffic analysts carry out vehicle speed stream analysis and road use patterns in connection with PCUS.
But in cities, such as Ahmedabad, dominated by two-wheeled vehicles (nearly 74%) researchers in the Civil Engineering Department of LJ Institute of Technology and Technology Technology Gujarat, has now shown how the level of accuracy of high speed flow can be achieved if a motorcycle.
Used as a basic vehicle for analysis.
Two solid arterial roads from Kalupur and Nicol are chosen for that purpose.
MEU values for individual cars, buses, pedicabs on this stretch are calculated after considering the speed and distance each of these vehicle classes is maintained between itself and two-wheeled around it.
So for cars, motorbikes, pedicabs, buses, lightweight commercial vehicles (LCV), and bicycle speed ratios are calculated as 3.02, 1.00, 1.84, 9.82, 6.2, and 1.9.
“The dominance of motorbikes in traffic flow affects traffic conditions differ from passenger cars.
Because of their easy maneuverability, motorbikes reduce the speed of other modes and make traffic jams due to their advantages in the amount.
Next, smaller motorcycle size reflects ‘Behavior’ charging gap rather than ‘car-following’ behavior, “research claims.
“The estimated values can be used to establish speed-speed relationships, measuring road capacity on urban roads, analyzing the level of service to plan the appropriate traffic control and regulatory steps,” claiming the study by a team consisting of vyas ceval, jeel Anovadia and Dr.
Ashutosh Patel from the LJ Institute of Technical Technology and Technology Technology Gujarat.
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