Road Traffic Flow Speed on Rural Roads in Latvia
2024
Juris Kreicbergs, Katerina Folla, Juris Smirnovs

The aim of this article is to perform a comprehensive analysis of the data obtained during flow speed measurements on Latvian national roads. An algorithm for data selection was developed and implemented allowing analysis of comparable and unbiased traffic flow measurement data. In the course of the work, more than 150,000,000 traffic flow record data received from the State Limited Liability Company Latvian State Roads for the period from autumn 2011 to the end of 2022. Above 30,000,000 records from 15 road sites have been selected and processed. The results obtained during the analysis are visualized by depicting flow characteristics – average daily traffic, car proportion in traffic flow, average speed, speed histograms, speed rates - V25, V50, V75, V90, V95, V99 and proportions of vehicles driven below various speed levels and speeding data. The data characterizing the situation on Latvian national roads are intended to be used in the future analysis of the traffic safety level.


Keywords
annual traffic speed variations, big data analysis, free flow traffic, road traffic safety, traffic parameters measurements
DOI
10.7250/bjrbe.2024-19.630
Hyperlink
https://bjrbe-journals.rtu.lv/bjrbe/article/view/bjrbe.2024-19.630

Kreicbergs, J., Folla, K., Smirnovs, J. Road Traffic Flow Speed on Rural Roads in Latvia. The Baltic Journal of Road and Bridge Engineering, 2024, Vol. 19, No. 1, pp.114-135. ISSN 1822-427X. e-ISSN 1822-4288. Available from: doi:10.7250/bjrbe.2024-19.630

Publication language
English (en)
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