Evaluation of Urban Traffic Management in China

Abstract

Urban traffic management is important for growth of national economy. An integrated evaluation system is first proposed to evaluate the level of traffic management of each Chinese city, as well as to guide the developing direction of Chinese urban traffic management. An evaluation model is then formulated to evaluate the national economic benefit produced by the development of traffic management. The benefit consists of three aspects: time saving, energy saving and traffic accident decrease. All key parameters in the model are discussed thoroughly. Field data of 178 Chinese cities in 2000, 2001 and 2002 are collected, and the national economic benefit of these three years are evaluated. The results show that the integration evaluation has greatly improved the level of Chinese urban traffic management, and has produced a large amount of national economic benefit.