The energy assessment as a criteria for justification of the choice of engineering and planning solution of intersection of city high-ways

Abstract

The actual state and quality of road transport operations largely depend on the efficiency of city transport on the road network. The economic development of cities, the level of comfort and living conditions of people in the settlements of the country hinge on the quality indicators of its operation. Since the level of efficiency of the city's road network heavily depends on the effectiveness of points of maximum concentration of traffic – transport and planning nodes, special attention should be paid specifically to these elements of the city's road network. In this regard, the analysis and research of energy consumption of the traffic flow as one of the criteria for assessing the choice of engineering solutions for transport and planning nodes is an actual direction for further scientific research. At the same time, the optimization of their planning decisions is considered only as one of the components in the system approach to minimizing the transport energy costs both in the road network of cities and in the transport sector of Ukraine as a whole. This paper considers the energy estimation as one of the criteria for justifying the choice of the engineering solution for the intersection of city highways by the example of a transport and planning hub at the intersection of the Kiltseva Doroga – Prospekt Peremohy – Prospekt Academika Palladina in Kyiv. To carry out the relevant assessment, a model is used to estimate the impact of energy consumption of the transport stream on the rationale for choosing an engineering and planning solution for intersecting city highways, taking into account the influence of individual design parameters characterizing the choice of their planning decisions, as compared to the model for determining the transport energy consumption with the help of the simulation tool, PTV Vissim software application.