Integrating GIS and Microscopic Traffic Simulation to Analyze Impacts of Transportation Infrastructure Construction

Cai, Hubo; Oh, Jun Seok; Yang, Canqian

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“…GIS has been extensively used for: pavement and bridge maintenance management (Xiao et al, 2012), modelling disaster response plans (Cheng et al, 2014) as well as analysing impacts of transportation infrastructure construction (Cai et al, 2012), routing of overweight and oversized vehicles (Steere, 2012), identifying high-crash-risk road segments (Mohaymany et al, 2013), high safety and truck traffic analysis (Schultz et al, 2012), the management of rural highways network (Manyazewal et al, 2014), and others. GIS is also a useful tool to support decisions on the construction of new roads, as it facilitates analysis of the effects of new infrastructure on an area's accessibility, optimising the route, and minimising the possible environmental and visual impact of new roads (Seguì Pons and Ruiz Pèrez, 2003).…”

Section: Use Of Gis For Road Inventoriesmentioning

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Developing a 3d Road Cadastral System: Comparing Legal Requirements and User Needs

Gristina

Ellul

Scianna

2016

ISPRS Ann. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.

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ABSTRACT:Road transport has always played an important role in a country's growth and, in order to manage road networks and ensure a high standard of road performance (e.g. durability, efficiency and safety), both public and private road inventories have been implemented using databases and Geographical Information Systems. They enable registering and managing significant amounts of different road information, but to date do not focus on 3D road information, data integration and interoperability. In an increasingly complex 3D urban environment, and in the age of smart cities, however, applications including intelligent transport systems, mobility and traffic management, road maintenance and safety require digital data infrastructures to manage road data: thus new inventories based on integrated 3D road models (queryable, updateable and shareable on line) are required. This paper outlines the first step towards the implementation of 3D GIS-based road inventories. Focusing on the case study of the "Road Cadastre" (the Italian road inventory as established by law), it investigates current limitations and required improvements, and also compares the required data structure imposed by cadastral legislation with real road users' needs. The study aims to: a) determine whether 3D GIS would improve road cadastre (for better management of data through the complete life-cycle infrastructure projects); b) define a conceptual model for a 3D road cadastre for Italy (whose general principles may be extended also to other countries). 1* INTRODUCTIONMobility and transport represent two key components of economic development and human welfare of a country. Road transport promotes rural development, the transport and selling of agricultural products, industry and trade, the expansion of jobs, and access to health, education, and services (Parami Dewi, 2013). The role of roads is equally decisive at the urban scale, as they connect city parts and are a framework for the city structure (Sun and Chen, 2000). The number of reasons for people to travel between two locations (e.g. for work, leisure, family) has been increasing and road traffic has become very intense, a trend that will continue (World Highways. International Road Federation, 1990; Road Transport Forecasts, 2013): new roads are planned, existing road networks require daily maintenance, and safety, traffic congestion, and trafficrelated air pollution have also to be properly managed. The above requires inventories/information systems in which roads are properly identified, classified and described, and where geospatial data, administrative and technical-functional road features are collected, with the recent development of different specialist transport-related topics (e.g. Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS)) adding to the need for digital road data infrastructures to integrate and manage road-related information (Sandgren, 2004). Real-time sensing of traffic and of the road surface to monitor and analyse road phenomena (e.g. to check the status of the road structure o...

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Section: Use Of Gis For Road Inventoriesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Developing a 3d Road Cadastral System: Comparing Legal Requirements and User Needs

Gristina

Ellul

Scianna

2016

ISPRS Ann. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.

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“…Microscopic simulation is capable of modeling the spatial and temporal distributions of traffic and congestions and when such simulation models are agent-based, individual human and vehicle behavior and their interactions with road infrastructure can be incorporated to derive aggregate road network performance from bottom-up (Bonabeau, 2002;Cai et al, 2012;Cetin et al, 2003;Ehlert and Rothkrantz, 2001;Hidas, 2005). The unique merit of agent-based, microscopic simulation has made it very useful in emergency evacuation.…”

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“…While the rapid advancement in computing technologies has enabled microscopic simulations in large-scale networks, collecting required data from sketch is extremely time-consuming and expensive. Realizing that most public transportation agencies have developed macroscopic regional travel forecasting models on the GIS platform, an effective alternative is to integrate GIS-based macroscopic modeling and microscopic simulation so that existing GIS data could be process to suit microscopic simulation needs (Cai et al, 2012). Alexiadis et al (1994) coupled a macro-model in the planning stage and a meso-model (TRANSYT 7F) to analyze traffic management systems.…”

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“…Rousseau et al (2008) implemented a framework to integrate regional planning model with microscopic simulation in the Atlanta area using a nine-step process. Cai et al (2012) proposed a framework to integrate GIS and microscopic simulation to evaluate highway construction impacts and tested the resulting prototype with both analytical and visualization capabilities in the Ambassador Gateway Bridge project in Detroit. A…”

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“…University campus emergency evacuation number of programming tools (Cai et al, 2012;Montero et al, 1998Montero et al, , 2001Scheer et al, 2003;Siegel and Coeymans, 2005) have resulted from these efforts to facilitate the integration process.…”

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Integrating GIS and Microscopic Traffic Simulation to Analyze Impacts of Transportation Infrastructure Construction

Cited by 4 publications

References 11 publications

Developing a 3d Road Cadastral System: Comparing Legal Requirements and User Needs

Developing a 3d Road Cadastral System: Comparing Legal Requirements and User Needs

A GIS-microscopic simulation approach for optimizing road barrier placement and configuration in university campus emergency evacuation

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