China Safety Science Journal ›› 2023, Vol. 33 ›› Issue (1): 152-160.doi: 10.16265/j.cnki.issn1003-3033.2023.01.0388

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Timing decision of highway reconstruction and expansion in coordination of safety and efficiency

WANG Fupeng1(), WANG Hong1,**(), WU Jing'an1, ZHU Shunying1, JIANG Ruoxi1, ZHAO Long2   

  1. 1 School of Transportation and Logistics Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan Hubei 430063, China
    2 China Railway Siyuan Survey and Design Group Co, Wuhan Hubei 430063, China
  • Received:2022-08-18 Revised:2022-11-11 Online:2023-01-28 Published:2023-07-28

Abstract:

In order to overcome the limitation that the timing of reconstruction and expansion cannot fully reflect the operation status of highway by saturation degree, a reconstruction and expansion timing decision method based on traffic safety and efficiency state change points was proposed. The safety indicator was the serious traffic conflict rate, and the efficiency indicator was the speed loss rate and relative traffic efficiency, so as to build an evaluation index system for the timing of expansion. Simulation and example analysis were conducted with the Nantou-Nanping section of Guangshen expressway, and the results showed that: using saturation as the comparison index for trend analysis, the selected indexes in this paper change by more than 300% before and after the change point, while the saturation change by only 18% before and after the change point. By comparing the best re-expansion timing of 2020 determined by the method in this paper and 2025 determined by the service level method, the serious traffic conflict rates of the two halves are reduced by 41.11% and 43.52%, the speed loss rates are reduced by 33.95% and 29.26%, the relative traffic efficiency of the Nantou to Nantou section is increased by 9.46%, and the reduction of relative traffic efficiency in the Nantou to Nantou section is avoided.

Key words: highways, timing of renovation and expansion, safety and efficiency, threshold determination, variable point theory