Evaluating Impressions on Urban Transportation Networks via Seaport-Induced Traffic

The article's main objective is to analyse the impacts of the heavy goods vehicle traffic generated by the two seaport terminals of the city of Genova and provide a virtual traffic calming technique to ease the burden on the surrounding urban road network. Authors exhibit the impressions of the heavy good vehicular traffic induced by the port operation via a macroscopic simulation model developed in PTV Visum software. Then based on the observed traffic flows four critical road segments are identified in the network where the macroscopic fundamental parameters are analysed by increasing the heavy good vehicles traffic generating four different scenarios. Later an optimal virtual traffic-calming scheduling technique is proposed and implemented in the simulation environment revealing an impressive uplift in the traffic performance of the critical road segments.