Vehicle's Dynamic Behavior Simulation as a Tool for Evaluating Geometrical Changes in Roads Instituto Mexicano del Transporte

Format:

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

Vazquez-Vega, David, author.

Conference Name:

SAE 2009 Commercial Vehicle Engineering Congress & Exhibition (2009-10-06 : Rosemont, Illinois, United States)

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Warrendale, PA SAE International 2009

Summary:

The relationship between road geometric design and vehicles moving along it should be in a harmonic way in order to reduce the risk of accident occurrence. As a safety issue, the accident black spot analysis can lead to improvements in traffic signaling and/or to changes to the conflictive roadway section. This paper shows the applicability of the vehicle's dynamic behavior simulation as a complementary tool for evaluating geometrical modifications of roadway sections. A simplified example is described using a typical heavy vehicle, which follows a roadway section under two scenarios, one with an unchanged path and other with some modifications in order to increase safety. Results showed that vehicle's dynamic simulation can offer a detailed perspective of the vehicle's behavior to identify the effectiveness of the proposed changes before they are applied in the practice

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Publisher Number:

2009-01-2921

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Restricted for use by site license