Analysis Method of External Traffic Demand in City Area

Abstract

To overcome the disadvantages of the existing method, a “dual four-stage” method” is put forward to analyze external traffic demand in city area considering the characteristics of external traffic. The method is carried out by two steps, and in the first step the city area is regarded as an overall traffic zone and the “four-stage” method of regional traffic demand analysis is used to obtain the total generation volumes of internal-external (IE) & external-internal (EI) trips of city area as well as the traffic volumes of both directions of all the arterial highways through the city in planning years. In the second step, the planning area of city is divided into several parts as internal traffic zones, and the external traffic zones are set near the junctions of highways and cordon line, then the “four-stage” method is applied for the second time to obtain the trip generation and distribution of IE & EI trips and (external-external) EE trips for internal traffic zones and external traffic zones in planning years. The application of the analysis on external traffic demand for comprehensive transportation planning of Zhenjiang City shows that the proposed method combines the advantages of influence area method and Cordon Line method it overcomes disadvantages of the two methods, and the results are more consistent with the real situation.