Impact of traffic management alternatives on intersection capacity: Kahramanmaras

The capacity of existing roads of city centers remains insufficient due to the increasing of population and correspondingly increasing the number of vehicles in our cities. For this reason, the mentality of 'Traffic Management becomes crucial to operating an optimum level capacity of a network of existing roads in our cities. Traffic Management that contains planning, control, and control implementations is an interdisciplinary topic to use a more efficiently network of roads in cities.It will be investigated impacts of environmental like emissions and noises which are due to enhancing the capacity of existing signalized intersection by using the developed software that is for traffic flow and intersection design and simulation.The capacity of intersections will be executed to simulate by VISSIM with 5 diffirent alternatives. These alternatives will have been evaulated according to where intersection is by VISSIM that is a simulation program. One of these alternatives was implemented by KMM (Kahramanmaraş Metropolitan Municipal) on the site, after that this alternative was compared between simulation results and new traffic counts that was renewed with new geometricric design. According to these results, the new geometric design with the simulation is 93% compatible.This project will been anticipated to be guiding for especially administrator. Especially, positive effects of the alternatives will be seen and assisted healtier investment before any high cost investments like a underpass, interchange etc will not be constructed in points that is insuffient capacity