scholarly journals Formation of a comfortable transport infrastructure for cyclist traffic in the tourist area of Kazan

2021 ◽  
Vol 274 ◽  
pp. 02007
Author(s):  
Aniia Ibragimova ◽  
Olga Petropavlovskikh

This article examines the issue of cycling in Russian cities on the example of the city of Kazan. The authors come to the conclusion that the existing bicycle zones in Kazan aren’t connected to each other and don’t intersect complex transport hubs with high traffic intensity, therefore, cycling around the city isn’t safe and comfortable. As a solution to this problem, the idea of a new combined overpass, combining a pedestrian and roadway for cyclists, is presented. In addition, it’s proposed to develop the street and road network of the city of Kazan, through the construction of new bicycle paths. The combined overpass will allow for a more rational redirection of the city's traffic flows, ensure the safety of high-speed traffic and create comfortable conditions for the city's population. The construction of a bicycle path will reduce the total traffic load on the city's roads, and ensure safe movement for citizens in the central part of the city. Thus, the need to introduce and develop bicycling in our city, which entails planning not only bicycle paths, but also the construction of other transport infrastructure facilities for comfortable crossing of transport hubs with high traffic intensity by cyclists, seems obvious.

Author(s):  
Victoria Bitykova ◽  
Nikita Mozgunov

The main discussion is about methods for assessing the intensity of traffic flows using geoinformation technologies. The intensity of traffic flows is one of the key indicators that determine the emission from transport in urban areas. In Russia, the growth in the volume and share of motor transport in pollution is increasing under the influence of an increase in the number of cars. This is most obvious examples of it are regions of the Central Federal District, but in the regional centers, under the influence of the improvement in the structure of the vehicle park, the growth of pollution is much slower, and in Moscow it has practically stabilized. At the local level, the determining factor of road traffic pollution is the change in the building density and the transport-planning structure. The collection and calculation of indicators that give an idea of the spatial differentiation of emissions from road transport is a very time-consuming stage of the study. The most common method of obtaining information on the transport and environmental situation in the city is directly field data collection. However, this method is quite time consuming for research. In conditions when the transport infrastructure is developing rapidly, the speed of field observations does not allow promptly updating information on changes in the traffic load of the road network and, as a result, assessing the current ecological situation in the territory. As an alternative to the traditional collection of information, modern sources of geoinformation data can be used. The services, originally developed to provide operational monitoring of the traffic situation and the construction of optimal routes, can also serve as a source of data for models for assessing the intensity of traffic load in environmental studies. The proposed technique has been tested at the level of districts and administrative districts of Moscow. The results obtained are compared with control field observations. The relatively low measurement error when using data from information systems is compensated by the possibility of more efficiently obtaining information about the traffic load on the sections of the road network.


Urban Studies ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 004209802110178 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zheng Chang ◽  
Mi Diao

This study analyses the changes in intra-city housing values in response to improved inter-city connection brought by high-speed rail (HSR), using the opening of the Hangzhou–Fuzhou–Shenzhen Passenger Dedicated Line (HFSL) in Shenzhen, China, as an example. The opening of the HFSL and its integration into the local metro network at Shenzhen North Station provide exogenous intra-city variations in access to the surrounding economic mass. With a difference-in-differences approach, we find that the HFSL showed a negative local effect as housing values declined by 11.5%–13.3% in the proximity of Shenzhen North Station relative to areas further from the station after the opening, possibly due to the negative externalities of the HFSL. The HFSL effect can spread along the metro network and lead to, on average, a 7% appreciation of housing values around metro stations (network effect). The direction and strength of the network effect vary by metro travel time between Shenzhen North Station and metro stations. Housing values decreased by 7.7% around metro stations within 5–15 minutes of metro travel time but increased by 63.6%, 16.6% and 29.2% around metro stations within 15–25, 25–35 and 35–45 minutes of metro travel time to Shenzhen North Station, respectively. The HFSL effect on housing values diminishes when the rail travel time is above 45 minutes. We interpret these findings as evidence of the redistribution effect in the city related to HSR connection.


2014 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 14-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jakub Chmelík ◽  
Miroslav Marada

Abstract Assessing changes in the spatial distribution and intensity of traffic flow patterns, considered one of the main direct influences of the construction of transport infrastructure, is discussed in this paper. The central element of the research is a case study assessing such changes in connection with the opening of the D47 motorway in its Lipník nad Bečvou-Ostrava section. The aim of the study is a comparison of traffic conditions before and after the opening of the motorway. The real data on the traffic load of the motorway sections are compared with the official and our own forecast, which is based on applying a basic form of the gravity model for the given area. The results of the analysis confirmed intuitive assumptions about changes in the spatial redistribution of traffic flows.


2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 151-176 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michał Kowalski ◽  
Szymon Wiśniewski

The article presents a forecast of changes in the level of transport accessibility and mobility in Poland as a result of the anticipated development of the network of expressways and motorways. The progress which has been made in this respect in the last few years in Poland is unquestionable and unrepeatable by any other European country. Will the subsequent investment plans concerning the road network of the highest parameters offer equally impressive results as far as the increase in Poland’s territorial cohesion is concerned? The aim of this article is to establish in what way the planned infrastructure investments will affect the changes in transport accessibility and mobility as well as whether they will result in the changes in traffic flows directed to Warsaw and other regional centres. To achieve this, an analysis of the present and target state of the road network in Poland was conducted from the perspective of changes in accessibility, anticipated traffic flows, and mobility. For this purpose the authors used the analyses of isochrone and accumulative accessibility in ArcMap environment and research into traffic flows and their changes in the Visum software. The conducted research showed that the planned transport network might result in induced traffic through a increase in accessibility (the central variant) with the assumption that an increase in mobility would be vented in the real face of the phenomenon of motility. The fact of opening new road sections of expressways will contribute to substantial changes in the directions of traffic flows only to a slight extent, and the only transformations concern regions with already developed fast car transport infrastructure whose functionality is limited due to the lack of its cohesion in the subsequent course or lack of a developed network of expressways and motorways.


Author(s):  
Evgeny P. Dudkin ◽  
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Abujwaid Husam Abbas Mohsin ◽  
Leonid A. Losin ◽  
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The transport network of cities can be represented as a complex of streets and passages, as well as elements of public transport infrastructure unconnected with the street and road network. It is reasonable to represent the real network in the form of a simplified network based on graph theory to analyze the properties of the transport network. There are various methods of network connectivity assessment, including those based on various indices. According to all indicators in the street and road network of the city of Petrozavodsk it is necessary to increase the number of units. The implementation of recommendations for changes of the street and road network of the city of Petrozavodsk will reduce traffic congestion, the number of accidents and transport expenses. It is recommended to use the proposed method to assess and improve the street and road network of cities.


2013 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 187-195
Author(s):  
Vidmantas Pumputis ◽  
Giedrius Garbinčius ◽  
Valentin Mironov

Vilnius, the capital and the largest city of Lithuania, is faced with serious traffic problems. The main streets of the city are overcrowded with traffic. Therefore, the effective ways to ease the congestion should be sought. The paper considers the problem of high traffic intensity and congestion at the intersection of two busy Vilnius streets. Research is based on the analysis of the data stored at the Vilnius Traffic Management Centre and the information obtained in the experimental investigation of traffic flows. All the collected data have been used in the traffic simulation program, to make some effective measures helping to increase traffic capacity of the considered intersection.


Author(s):  
Ihor Khitrov ◽  
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Mykhailo Krystopchuk ◽  

Decision-making to improve the functioning of route systems is an extremely necessary, but at the same time difficult task, as it determines the overall socio-economic development of the city, the stability and safety of its transport complex. The purpose of this work is to establish patterns of formation and distribution of passenger flows for the transport network of the city with a description of models of their operation. The traditional approach to determining the concentration of travel is described by "synthetic" models, such as gravity. A practical solution to the problems of transport planning is the modeling of behavioral demand, which is based on the concept of attractiveness function. The load of the transport network is determined by the number of vehicles on it. Download simulation is the distribution of inter-district correspondence along specific paths connecting district pairs. In normative models, the distribution of traffic flows is based on the optimization of some global criterion that characterizes the efficiency of the entire network. The descriptive approach is based on the principle according to which each participant seeks to minimize their own costs. The most effective is the model of finding the equilibrium distribution. One of the variants of which is used to distribute users of one class. In this way, the location of transport interchanges in the transport infrastructure of the city mainly determines their transport structure. The distribution of passenger correspondence between interacting infrastructure objects is described by a gravitational model. The equilibrium distribution search model should be used as a task to optimize the distribution of traffic flows.


2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (5) ◽  
pp. 606-617
Author(s):  
T. V. Bobrova ◽  
A. A. Andryushenkov

Introduction. An analysis of the most well-known agglomeration management models in Russia and abroad has shown that there are no comprehensive solutions in this area yet. The problem of information modeling of control actions on the state and development of the road network of these territorial entities is not well understood and requires further comprehensive research. The purpose of the paper is to formulate the most important principles and methodological approaches for building a modern information system for managing the road infrastructure of urban agglomerations.Methods and models. The designed system based on information modeling technologies of transport interaction processes between corresponding points. The structure of the system presented on the principles of multi-agent project management. The authors identified the types of mathematical models for solving key problems in the framework of design modules by creation of an agglomeration transport framework, ensuring the regulatory requirements of the transport and operational condition of roads and by creation of conditions for the continuous and safe movement of road transport.Results. The architecture of the “Road Network-6D BIM” developed system reflected the relations of two information processes: filling the system with knowledge and forming box solutions using a knowledge bank. The n-D modeling based on three-dimensional projections of structures (3-D) with the addition of digital modeling technologies: calendar terms, resources and financing of objects in the life cycle. The authors tested system elements during the experiment and the implementation of the project for the integrated development of the transport infrastructure of the Omsk agglomeration.Discussion and conclusions. The implementation of the “Road Network-6D BIM” project in the proposed concept makes a definite contribution to solving the problems of managing the road network of the city agglomeration by increasing the level of intellectualization of the tasks at all stages of project management.


2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-80
Author(s):  
Andrey Gorev ◽  
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Olga Gasilova ◽  
Boris Sidorov ◽  
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Introduction: Improving intersection capacity will not be possible without accounting for traffic safety. Purpose of the study: We aim to determine the prerequisite for accident-free traffic at signal-controlled intersections with turning traffic flows. Methods: In our study, we used the methods of observation, comparison, and mathematical analysis. Results: We have carried out a field observation of traffic intensity at signal-controlled intersections in the city of Yekaterinburg, focusing on vehicles that moved when the green light was on. We have also analyzed traffic flow moving in three directions in the same lanes. We have discovered that traffic accident likelihood is the highest (54%) at four-way intersections. Three-way intersections account for 44% of traffic accidents, while the remaining 2% of accidents occur at multi-way intersections. Furthermore, we have determined the additional factors that impact safety in turning traffic flows at intersections. Our study demonstrates that in order to ensure maximum intersection capacity, the duration of the traffic signal cycle must be adjusted with the minimum safe distance between vehicles in mind.


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