Abstract

There is no doubt that transportation is one of the most important elements in any city and its development. However, traffic congestion is hurdle to any transportation system and especially in top cities like Dubai. Traffic congestions have many reasons like traveling from suburban to the city center for work and study, and relaying mostly on private vehicles. The impacts of traffic congestions reach beyond the increase in travel time, it also increase gas consumption, and affect people’s health negatively. One of the most practical ways to ease traffic congestion is using Reversible lanes (RL) which are lanes that can change travel direction based on the traffic congestion and increase road capacity in different times of the day. RL proved its effectiveness to ease traffic congestion in many cases around the world. RL was applied on Alittihad road that witnesses a heavy traffic congestion in rush hours in different times of the day. RL was applied starting from Mulla Plaza intersection and for 2 km. After collecting data and doing the calculations, the results came that applying RL will reduce traffic congestion and traffic volume, as a result, the travel time will reduce and driving speed will increase. Smart application were introduced to RL in this paper to increase the efficiency of the solution and to have advantages such as predicting the traffic jams ahead and control the RL system accordingly. In addition to sending and receiving signal from autonomous vehicles that will be used more in the future and might replace the private vehicles.

Publication Date

3-2020

Document Type

Master's Project

Student Type

Graduate

Degree Name

Professional Studies - City Sciences (MS)

Department, Program, or Center

Graduate Programs & Research

Advisor

Sanjay Modak

Advisor/Committee Member

Boutheina Tlili

Campus

RIT Dubai

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