Study on Signal Intersection Traffic Flow Characteristics in Ice Conditions

Abstract

As the component of urban transportation network, the intersection is the main part of traffic accidents and the bottleneck of restricting the smoothness of the transportation system. There are signalized intersection and non-signalized intersection, and the former is the main form at the intersection. So the evaluation of the service level under ice and snowfall conditions is significant. In the paper, we analysis the basic parameter of intersection signal control and operating characteristics of straight, right turn, left turn traffic flow in ice and snow condition, and we propose a traffic delay time model. On this basis, according to the snowfall intensity and respectively to the lanes and the whole intersection traffic flow as the object of study, we study the average delay in signal intersection in normal weather, slight snow, heavy snow and blizzard. With snow and ice conditions as starting point, the paper calculates the traffic capacities of signalized intersection under various snow and ice conditions. We compare the results of the calculation model and the actual measurement results, finally get the conclusion: the average delay time model can better express the vehicle at signalized intersection, in which the maximum deviation is 16.73%, and only appear once, twice the maximum deviation is 13.58%, and calibrate the snow and cold weather delayed mixed model.