TERRAIN: Traffic OpERations on uRbAn grId Networks
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Project description
Duration
10.2013-09.2015
Sponsor
ETH Zurich
Staff
Dr. M. Menendez and J. Ortigosa
Summary
This research studies the ability of a city to cope with traffic based on its urban pattern. Results could be used to improve the design of new cities, as well as the management (from an urban and traffic perspective) of existing ones in order to use them more efficiently. The planned work involves the creation of several models of urban patterns that, although abstract, represent real cities (not only concerning their structure but their demand features as well). In these models, numerical and traffic analysis tools will be employed to find the relationship between urban patterns and traffic performance.