Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.7307/ptt.v30i3.2738
Effect of Traffic Information on Travel Time of Medium-distance Trips: A Case Study in Tehran
Roozbeh Mohammadi
orcid.org/0000-0003-1290-4499
; M.Sc in Transportation planning, Amirkabir University of technology
Amir Golroo
orcid.org/0000-0002-4222-9861
; Assistant ProfessorAmirkabir University of Technology
Mahdieh Hasani
; M.Sc. student of Transportation Engineering, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, USA
Abstract
In populated cities with high traffic congestion, traffic information may play a key role in choosing the fastest route between origins and destinations, thus saving travel time. Several research studies investigated the effect of traffic information on travel time. However, little attention has been given to the effect of traffic information on travel time according to trip distance. This paper aims to investigate the relation between real-time traffic information dissemination and travel time reduction for medium-distance trips. To examine this relation, a methodology is applied to compare travel times of two types of vehicle, with and without traffic information, travelling between an origin and a destination employing probe vehicles. A real case study in the metropolitan city of Tehran, the capital of Iran, is applied to test the methodology. There is no significant statistical evidence to prove that traffic information would have a significant impact on travel time reduction in a medium-distance trip according to the case study.
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203291
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Publication date:
27.6.2018.
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