Macroscopic Transport Model as a Part of Traffic Management Center: Technical Feasibility Study

Abstract

This paper is result of technical feasibility study done in Transport and Telecommunication Institute, located in Riga, Latvia. As many world cities, Riga as capital of Latvia is suffering from transport congestions. There are many objective reasons of this situation, like outdated transport infrastructure, star-shaped roads schema, limited number of possibilities to cross the river etc. Riga City Traffic Department has a number of solutions, but most promising is the idea of implementation of ITS. The ITS provides a number of solutions, but the target of completed technical feasibility study is related with implementation of on-line traffic forecasting tool, which is based on macroscopic transport model and could be treated as subsystem of the traffic management system. The results of analysis give a number of “hot spots” which should be taken into account before technical implementation of the system. But the analysis results lead to the conclusion that the implementation of the on-line traffic forecasting tool is feasible for Riga city.