Abstract:
With the ever increasing traffic growth in the prevailing road network in
urban districts and major towns, there exists a severe problem of jamming,
interruptions, ecological hazards and high fuel consumption. Short term and
long term solutions like construction of new roads, broadening of prevailing
road networks, provision of raised fly over’s, etc are constrained by finances
and space availability. The precise estimation of traffic interruptions at
signalized crossings is a key element for the planning, design and analysis of
signal controls. The area selected for study and traffic surveys is Kacherichowk
in Rawalpindi because of its close proximity to private and commercial
activities.
Various traffic studies and surveys such as volume count, intersection
inventory study, signal cycle length study has been carried out. The Study is
performed to evaluate the current condition of Traffic, Hourly variations,
Capacity and Level of Service (LOS). The traffic data is analyzed and results
shows that Kacherichowk is always a crowded intersection at peak hours and
operate at a much low level of service. Therefore, the purpose of this research
work is to enhance the performance along with operation of Kacherichowk by
assessing different options to improve the traffic capacity.
During the project, all the requisite data was collected manually using different
survey equipment etc. Few soft wares like VISSIM and EXCEL were used for the
analytical studies and also for the solutions to improve the traffic progression
at this intersection. The outcomes of this research work will give different
options and the most viable option will be suggested which can be at grade or
grade separation or in the form of optimized signal timings.
