Freight traffic flow research and rerouting from Riga city center
Overview
Background & policy context:
Riga City is an important element of East-West transport corridor. Special place in Riga economics is occupied by Free Port of Riga, which is one of most efficient in Baltic Region. It means that Riga is an attraction point for freight traffic flow. At same time, Riga is considered as a city, which is friendly for tourists and citizens. Both aspects are important for sustainable urban development, but both contradict.
Objectives:
The main tasks of this project could be formulated as follows:
- to make freight and private vehicle traffic counts survey;
- to formulate freight and private traffic rerouting scenarios from city centre for 2014, 2015, 2018 years;
- to develop, calibrate and validate the model for scenarios analysis;
- to analyse different development scenarios and estimate level of service (LOS) according to Highway Capacity Manual.
Methodology:
According to the formulated tasks a traffic counts survey was performed in 19 points across Riga transport network. More than 40 volunteers took part in this survey.
The survey was hold during two working days (from 10:00-12:00 and from 14:00-16:00). During the survey different types of freight transport vehicles were taken into account. Collected data allows to do general statistical analysis and to use the data for transport model calibration and validation.
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