Abstract:
Civil Engineering projects such as motorways are an important part of a county’s economic
growth and are a sign on progress. They provide the people with comfort and ease of travelling
to far off locations. Similarly, the Dera Ismail Khan-Peshawar Motorway will help bolster
regional connectivity and connect two distinct portions of the nation through a series of
interconnected highways. However, as civil engineers it is important to take into account the
physical changes that projects tend to undergo with the passage of time in order to ensure the
standard of service and predict any decline in performance and provide remedial measures if
the need arises.
To predict those changes VISSIM software was used to simulate various interchanges by
providing the traffic data as input for three different years i.e. 2021, 2031 and 2041. Traffic
data used for this process was provided by a traffic study report. Traffic for 2021 was provided
by the study report while the traffic for 2031 and 2041 was calculated using different growth
factors. Various parameters such as LOS, Stop Delay, Queue Length, maximum Queue Length
and Vehicles delays were estimated.
These parameters, prioritizing Level Of Service (LOS), were used to understand the
performance of interchanges in the future. Any deterioration or decline in efficiency, if
observed, was used to suggest remedial measures in order to improve the system and maintain maximum output of facility.
