Abstract
Developing countries are facing challenges in sustaining urban traffic congestion due to rapid urbanization. To manage urban traffic, a traffic engineer first needs to assess the current operational condition on urban roads. Level of service (LOS) is used to define the operational traffic condition within a traffic stream in terms of service quality that a facility is providing to its user. This paper proposes a novel approach to estimate ‘speed ratio’ by considering individual free-flow speed (FFS) of different vehicle categories. This study also provides a comparison between FFS estimated using the methods given in Highway Capacity Manual 2010 and Indian-Highway Capacity Manual 2018. LOS criteria were developed using five clustering technique: K-means, K-medoids, Clustering Large Applications, Fuzzy-C Means, and Hierarchical Agglomerative Clustering. Both internal and external cluster validation indices were used to find the optimal number of clusters and suitable clustering algorithms.
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