EFFICIENCY OF ONE-WAY CITY STREETS TRAFFIC

Sidorkov Vladimir Vladimirovich

Improving the efficiency of traffic in the urban road network is an important, urgent and difficult task. Efficiency can be improved by reducing the number of conflict points at the street road network. This can be achieved by replacing two-way traffic with one-way traffic. To make a decision on switching to one-way traffic, it is necessary to answer the question about the effectiveness of this method of organizing traffic. It is not possible to conduct research in the conditions of a real street road network. The costs of conducting such research can exceed all reasonable limits and bring chaos into the usual life cycles of the street road network of any city. To minimize the costs of a full-scale experiment to change the traffic pattern of road transport in an urban environment, simulation modeling can be used. The development and implementation of a simulation model for the movement of vehicles in a city will make it possible to make a preliminary assessment of the effectiveness of the approach itself to changing the traffic mode from two-way to one-way. In addition, the simulation model will make it possible to determine rational parameters of the traffic mode that ensure high efficiency of traffic flow and ensure the necessary level of safety of the city's street road network.

Keywords:one-way traffic, city's street road network, simulation model, traffic management