Tutorial Lane Occupancy

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Lane Occupancy

Lane Occupancy is the ratio of sum of the lengths of the vehicles to the length of the road section in which those vehicles are present.

Link Density Link Density is calculated by $$ \frac {v} {S} $$.

where,


 * 'v' is Flow Rate in analysis direction in vehicle per mile per lane (veh/mi/ln)
 * 'S' is Average Speed in miles per hour(mi/hr)

Calculation and Analysis


 * Run Simulation in SwashSim for the freeway network.
 * Consider warm-up time and simulation time as suitable. (For this case 300 seconds and 900 seconds have been considered as warm up time and simulation time).
 * Link Density is calculated from the Link Results output file and Time Step Data (TSD) file.
 * For Flow rate, first filter the data in the TSD file by excluding vehicles that enters the link before warm up time.
 * Also filter out those vehicles that are still on the link after the simulation time ends.
 * After filtering, total number of vehicles in 'TSD' file is equal to total number of vehicles in 'Link Results' file (Column U).
 * Calculate Flow Rate in vehicles per hour per lane using total number of vehicle.
 * Calculate Link Density using Flow rate and average speed (Link Results File, column F).

Detector Occupancy

Detector Occupancy is the time for which a detector is occupied. Percent Occupancy it is the percent of the ratio of total time for which a detector is occupied (T_o) by a vehicle to total observation time (T).

Calculation and Analysis


 * Add Detectors at suitable distance to each lane of the link to be analyzed.
 * Run Simulation in SwashSim for the freeway network.
 * Link_Lane_Detector output file is used to calculate the To.
 * To is the summation of difference of actuation 'time off' and actuation 'time on' for all the vehicles after the warm up time.
 * T is the simulation Duration in seconds.
 * Percent Occupancy calculated is equal to the occupancy obtained in DetectorAggregateMeasures file (Column N).
 * Estimated Density is ratio of Detector Occupancy and Effective Length (in feet per mile).