Standard Values of Service Level of Intersection for Collection and Distribution Roads of Container Terminals

Abstract

In the container terminal, the proportion of heavy trucks at the road intersections for container terminal is large, which is significantly different from the urban road traffic flow mainly dominated by sedan cars. Therefore, we established a microscopic traffic simulation model to analyze the dynamic change of service traffic volume under the different service levels of the large vehicles, and the grading standard on service level of evacuation road intersections for container terminals could also be determined. The results showed that the average delay and the queue length could be effected obviously by the rate of large vehicles when the loading degree was within 0.7~0.9. And the case study demonstrated that compared with the recommended values of evaluation index for road intersection service level from Code for Planning Intersections on Urban Roads, the proposed evaluation values would be more reasonable for container terminals.