Urban Traffic Organization Research Articles

Transport and infrastructure aspect of urban environment transformation in millionaire cities of Russia (on the example of railway transport in Perm)

One important field of modern complex research is the study of urban area transformation processes under the significant influence of changes in transport infrastructure, including railway infrastructure. Using the comparative method and the method of integral scoring, the authors of the article have evaluated how well suburban railway transport is developed in 14 millionaire cities of Russia. A special focus is on Volgograd, Krasnoyarsk, Samara and Kazan, which are all similar to Perm in terms of territorial and planning characteristics. One trend in organizing urban traffic is to develop off-street and high-speed transport (including railways), which is particularly important to Perm as the city is stretched along the Kama River. In the article we reveal that Perm has a high potential for increasing the role of railway transport in urban traffic organization. However, that potential is not fully reached because of the unsystematic approach to managing suburban railways at the regional and municipal levels; this has negative budgetary, financial, spatial and temporal consequences. The authors state that the project to eliminate the railway line from the station “Perm II” to the railway stop “Motovilikha” initiated by the regional authorities has negative consequences. It worsens the integral indicator characterizing the level of suburban railway transport development in the center of Perm Region and makes commuting longer and less comfortable for passengers. Also, it makes public transport in Perm less effective in terms of the city budget. The project will force people to use private cars and will make the city transport system less rational. Although the authorities state that the railway line hinders the integration of the Kama river embankment into the urban space, the authors of the article have not found sufficient evidence in support of that argument.

Study of traffic characteristics based on internet web real-time traffic conditions by image identification technology

ABSTRACTWith the rapid development of Internet, it is increasingly convenient to obtain real-time traffic condition information, which has greatly stimulated the improvement of urban traffic guidance. Traffic conditions are generally divided into four grades in the existing network platform, which are expressed in different colours. The understanding of traffic condition is still at the level of abstract senses. Therefore, it is difficult to grasp the characteristics of urban traffic. To this end, a new idea is proposed in this paper, and the new idea is to study the urban traffic characteristics based on real-time traffic condition information extraction with image identification technology. With this method, we can not only quantify the abstract traffic condition information, but also solve the loss of traffic condition information. In addition, an instance is analysed in this paper, it shows that it can provide references for urban traffic organization management very well.

Study on the Coupling Mechanism of Urban Spatial Structure and Urban Traffic Organization

From the angle of the high relationship between the traffic organization and urban spatial structure, the geographic concept, coupling, was proposed in the article, and the coupling mechanism of urban spatial structure and traffic organization was studied primarily based on the analysis of the connotation of the coupling, and the coupling function of main associated factors between the urban spatial structure and traffic organization was analyzed.