Environmental Implications of Traffic Flow Delays: A Model for Urban Streets

Abstract:

In this paper the problem of road's capacity is dealt in presence of perturbations of the vehicular flow. In particular, among the different disturbing causes, it is here considered the presence of vehicles parked along the road in relation to their parking activity. Having already established the delay, caused by those vehicles leaving their stationary positions and entering the traffic flow or by those who slow down the flow to park, it is possible to evaluate the changes in time running values. Related to these times delay, the extra pollutant emissions by a given urban running fleet is also evaluated, by utilizing emission factors depending on age, type, volume capacity and engine of the vehicles.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 260-261)
• Pages: 1167-1172
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.260-261.1167
• Online since: December 2012
• Authors: Ferdinando Corriere, Giorgia Peri, Vincenzo La Rocca, Gianfranco Rizzo
• Keywords: Environmental Implications, Traffic Flow, Urban Contexts

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