Determination Of Vehicle And Pedestrian Road Service Levels And Investigation Of Road Safety in Ankara Province Some Selected Regions

Abstract

The number of people using vehicles and public transportation in cities is increasing day by day. In this study, vehicle and pedestrian road service levels were evaluated for Ankara, the capital city of Turkey. A total of 1197 hours of data were obtained by counting the 3-week pedestrian and vehicle service levels multiple times during the day from the camera footages in the Traffic Control Branch of Directorate of the Transportation Department in the Ankara Metropolitan Municipality in certain selected regions. These data were used in calculations for 11 different pedestrian level level determination methods and 1 vehicle road traffic level determination method. The counts were made in 3 weeks between 19.07.2021 - 25.07.2021, 02.08.2021 - 08.08.2021 and 09.08.2021 - 15.08.2021. The "Highway Capacity Manual (HCM)" method was applied to determine the vehicle road service level for the capital. in order to determine pedestrian road service levels, “Highway Capacity Manual (HCM)”, “Landis”, “Mozer”, “Tan Dandan”, “Disabled PLOS”, “Sarkar”, “Trip Quality”, “Gainesville”, “Conjoint Analysis”, “Australian” and “Traffitec” methods were applied. In line with the results obtained, firstly the methods were compared within themselves, then different methods were compared with each other, hours, days and weeks were compared with each other. In line with the results, improvement suggestions were tried to be presented where deemed necessary for the optimal result, and suggestions were made for studies for new pedestrian level of service evaluation methods that can be studied in the future.