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<doi>/ISEC.res.2017.112</doi>
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<article-title>CHARACTERISTICS OF FUNDAMENTAL<br/>
DIAGRAMS DUE TO SHOCKWAVE BY NON-LANE
BASED HETEROGENEOUS TRAFFIC
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<author>ABU JAR MD. MINHUZ UDDIN AHMED, MD. TAREK HASAN, MD. RAKIBUL ALA,<br/>
and MD. SHAMSUL HOQUE</author>

<aff>Civil Engineering Dept, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology,<br/>
Dhaka, Bangladesh</aff>

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<title>ABSTRACT</title>
<p>If the global context of traffic flow researches are highlighted, it is observed that many
researches have already been conducted with the Fundamental Diagrams of traffic flow
for lane based homogeneous traffic. Studies related to propagation of shockwaves are
being conducted as well. But for developing countries such as Bangladesh, it is
predominant that non-lane based heterogeneous traffic exists in most of the roads.
Firstly there is scarcely any lane concept among the drivers at all. Moreover frequent
lane changing is a common phenomenon. For these reasons, responses of Fundamental
Diagrams' shape are quite distinctive from already established shapes. Thus the main
concern is to trace the deviation of the prevailing traffic flow parameters of traffic flow
from those established equations. Video footage has been taken of roadway section
marked suitably for measurement. Shockwaves due to lane changing for non-lane
based and heterogeneous synchronized traffic flow has been accomplished and
modelled using R and MATLAB analysis for a highway of Dhaka city, Bangladesh.
After modeling the calibration and validation are done accordingly to distinguish the
variation from ideal models and to verify that the study outcomes converge as well. It
has been detected that shockwave induces significant decrement in flow and speed in
case of specified traffic condition.</p>
<p><italic>Keywords: </italic>Developing country, Lane changing, Peak hour, Three phase traffic, Traffic
breakdown, Bottleneck, Phase transitions.</p>
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