ESTIMATIVA DA DEMANDA DE FLUXO DE TRÁFEGO DA RODOVIA BR 415 PARA UM HORIZONTE FUTURO DE DEZ ANOS A PARTIR DE 2018

The study of traffic is fundamental in the quantitative of vehicles that transit in a highway, for a certain period. This article presents the BR 415 km 14 traffic study, Jorge Armado Highway, analyzing the current highway capacity and future demand for ten years, identifying the service level and the functional class, the average daily volume, to determine the demand of the highway. The Highway Capacity Method - HCM - was used for single lane highways. The method consists in classifying the level of service by the percentage of time spent following and the average speed of travel of the highway under analysis. The volume of traffic on the highway was high, over 10,000 vehicles per day. The highway operates at the limit of its capacity, there are difficulties of maneuvers, reduced speeds and the volume of traffic is unstable, sometimes causing congestion.