Impact of Traffic Flow Characteristics in Multilane Highway and Pavement Design
Impact of Traffic Flow Characteristics in Multilane Highway and Pavement Design
Impact of Traffic Flow Characteristics in Multilane Highway and Pavement Design
FLOW
CHARACTERISTICS IN
MULTILANE HIGHWAY
AND PAVEMENT DESIGN
AUTHORS:
PRAVEEN KUMAR M.M.
ANIKET DESHPANDE
PANNAGA M.R.
J. S. VISHWAS (project guide)
ABSTRACT:
Data gathered from traffic flow is an important tool required for planning
and operation of road system .Due to mixed flow traffic in India it is
important to consider traffic condition while planning and designing of
pavement. Inventory survey and traffic survey are conducted at selected
stretch of a highway. Data collected from traffic survey is used to
calculate future traffic of existing road by simplex method of traffic
forecasting. Data collected from the above mentioned survey is used to
design of pavement using CBR method. Estimation of PCU value using
Satish Chandra method for traffic composition. Determination of capacity
and free flow speed to study speed volume relationship.
SITE SELECTION
DATA EXTRACTION
REPRESENTATION OF TRAFFIC
DISTRIBUTION AND COMPOSITION
RESULTS
1. PCU Values of various category of vehicles.
PCU (Satish Chandra's Method)
vehicle type PCU (IRC-106:1990)
Ban-Mys Mys-Ban
2-wheeler 0.1550983 0.1468301 0.5
auto rickshaw 0.646734007 0.712270388 1.2
car/jeep/taxi 1 1 1
utility vehicles 0.761315894 0.87982507 __
mini bus 1.674284446 1.795899387 __
standard bus 4.071216617 5.295991561 2.2
LCV passenger 1.314147028 1.784080776 1.4
LCV goods 1.364504463 1.573407407 1.4
2-Axle 2.58844482 2.968942189 2.2
3-Axle 2.643993587 3.682303585 2.2
Multi Axle 4.616419919 5.703736523 2.2
Agr. Tractor 3.902161547 3.619917985 4
Tractor-trailer 4.266169154 4.587379362 4
Road roller/JCB/Crane 7.181742044 8.576504553 __
Hand carts 1.841682185 1.566165026 2
Cycles 0.204081915 0.345215674 0.4
2. Capacity and free flow speed.
MAXIMUM CAPACITY = 2181 PCUs /hr
AVERAGE FREE FLOW SPEED = 27.24467 km/hr
VEHICLE TYPE FREE FLOW SPEED VEHICLE TYPE FREE FLOW SPEED
2-wheeler 2-Axle
39.98798 29.1179024
auto rickshaw 3-Axle
29.43951 23.5177311
car/jeep/taxi Multi Axle
44.3455364 24.88130
utility vehicles Agr. Tractor
23.2683826
mini bus Tractor-trailer
32.9248862 28.07707
28.5590621 18.98583
LCV passenger Hand carts
30.0910969 11.98851
LCV goods Cycles
29.067295 14.10363
3. VOLUME AND SPEED RELATIONSHIP.
DEPENDENCY (R DEPENDENCY (R
VEHICLE TYPE VEHICLE TYPE
SQUARE) SQUARE)
2-Axle 0.6693
4. PAVEMENT DESIGN.
LABRATORY TEST
RESULTS:
OMC : 14.81%
CBR : 7.3576 %
CSA BY TRAFFIC FORECASTING : 63.827 million standard axles (after 15 years)
PAVMENT LAYERS THICKNESS AS PER IRC 37:2012
623
TOTAL PAVEMENT THICKNESS
(mm)
43
BITUMINOUS CONCRETE
(mm)
110
DENSE BITUMINOUS
MECADAM (mm)
250
GRANULAR BASE COURSE
(mm)