| Title |
Carbon Reduction Effect of Traffic Operational Methods Itemized in National Project for Advanced Traffic Operation and Management |
| Authors |
김원철(Kim, Wonchul) ; 김진태(Kim, Jin-Tae) |
| DOI |
https://doi.org/10.12652/Ksce.2012.32.1D.001 |
| Keywords |
교통운영체계선진화;교통신호;탄소감축;녹색청정체계;모의실험 operation;traffic signal;carbon reduction;clean development mechanism;simulation |
| Abstract |
The presidential council on national competitiveness and the national police agency have initiated a national project to refresh the road traffic control and operation systems to increase operational efficiency at signalized intersections. It would reduce the number of stops and delay of vehicles at intersections and thus mitigate congestion and emission. Although significant reduction of carbon is expected as a consequential result, such effects has yet been studied since traffic operation was behind of interest in the field of green transportation where planning was mainly involved. This paper delivers the macroscopic effects of carbon reduction of the selected items of the national project: the ones managed by the police agency. The results showed that the studied items yield significant reduction of carbon: pedestrian push button operation, flashing signal operation, progression, lagging left turns, permitted left turn, and actuated left-turn operation would reduce 12.31%, 3.27%, 2.44%, 0.97%, 0.81%, and 0.72% of the total amount of carbon emitted a year in a whole transportation sector, respectively. |