Estudo do impacto de veículos pesados sobre a infra-estrutura rodoviária através de simulação microscópica de tráfego / Study of heavy vehicles impact on highway infra-structure through microscopic traffic simulation

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2007

RESUMO

The objective of this research was to develop a method for establishing the effect of heavy vehicles characteristics and operation on highway infra-structure by using the results of a microscopic traffic simulation model. Therefore, two secondary objectives were defined. The first of them involved the attainment of a detailed database containing the characteristics of 6,253 heavy vehicles. This data was collected at seven weight stations located on the state of São Paulo multilane highways. The other secondary objective was to calibrate and validate CORSIM by using a genetic algorithm, which simultaneously adapted 19 model parameters in order to appropriately reproduce the characteristics and the behavior of the observed traffic flow. The developed methodology is demonstrated through a case study in which two traffic scenarios were simulated and in which a hypothetic 100 m bridge was considered. In the case study, the probabilities of simultaneous presence of heavy vehicles on the bridge were determined. The conclusions of this research indicate that the method of calibrating a traffic simulation model utilizing a genetic algorithm was efficient, reducing the mean error from 9.11% to 6.32%. Additionally, the conclusions reveal that the attainment of a live load from extracted data through a traffic simulation model is possible and that the association of simulated data with a detailed database allows the estimation of heavy vehicle traffic effect on highway infra-structure. From the case study, it can be concluded that: (1) the probability of simultaneous presence of heavy vehicles on the bridge is very frequent and; (2) the loads distribution and its respective values are determinant in calculating efforts. The case study results demonstrate the proposed procedure viability.

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algoritmo genético simulação de tráfego calibração traffic simulation cargas móveis em pontes veículos pesados genetic algorithm calibration live load on bridges heavy vehicles

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