Title: The safety research of road alignment based on virtual simulation technology

Authors: Chang Lv; Dengfeng Shi; Shangbing Gao; Shuo Liu

Addresses: Key Laboratory for Traffic and Transportation Security of Jiangsu Province, Huaiyin Institute of Technology, Huai'an, Jiangsu 223003, China ' Jiangsu Transportation Institute Co., Ltd., Nanjing, Jiangsu 210017, China ' Key Laboratory for Traffic and Transportation Security of Jiangsu Province, Huaiyin Institute of Technology, Huai'an, Jiangsu 223003, China ' Key Laboratory for Traffic and Transportation Security of Jiangsu Province, Huaiyin Institute of Technology, Huai'an, Jiangsu 223003, China

Abstract: The application of virtual simulation technology in the design and construction of road provides a new way for the road design workers. For using virtual simulation technology to identify dangerous sections of roads that have been built and to provide technical support during the initial stages of road design, it is necessary to first research the reliability of virtual simulation experiments in road safety studies. The man-vehicle-road system model based on multi-body dynamics is proposed using the software of ADAMS/Car. Based on the roll and roll-over evaluation criteria, combined with speed consistency theory, the high risk and high driving load road sections are identified. Furthermore, the simulation results are compared with the measured results from six-dimensional sensor in order to verify the reliability of virtual simulation technology while applied for road shape designing. The comparison results can be seen that the simulation analysis based on virtual prototype technology of 12 sections accidents, ten with six component-based sensor anastomosis of real vehicle road test analysis section, the accident sections of results obtained from the two methods of alignment is 83.3%. The results show that the road risk prediction simulation based on virtual prototype technology can provide high reliability.

Keywords: traffic safety; geometric design; vehicle dynamics; virtual simulation.

DOI: 10.1504/IJESMS.2018.095966

International Journal of Engineering Systems Modelling and Simulation, 2018 Vol.10 No.4, pp.197 - 206

Received: 10 Apr 2018
Accepted: 05 Jun 2018
Published online: 05 Nov 2018 *

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