Applications:

DRACULA has been successfully used for research into:

• Intelligent speed control
• Guided bus operation
• Bus signal priority
• Microsimulation modelling
• Route choice calibration
• Use of Instrumented City data
• Road pricing
• Transport demand management (TDM) measures
• Environmental impacts of TDM

DRACULA has been applied to real-world problems, including:

• Partially signalised roundabout off M25 (W.S. Atkins, BAA)
• Public consultation on roundabout design at Salisbury (W.S. Atkins, Salisbury)
• M5 road works and contra-flow lanes (W.S. Atkins)
• Quality bus corridor (York C.C.)
• Gating strategy (URS Thorburn Colquhoun, HA)

Other potential areas of application range from the operational assessment of temporary traffic management options during maintenance to the design of access roads for major new development sites and the introduction of Intelligent Transport Systems providing dynamic information and control. If you have a potential application, talk to us about it.

Applications using DRACULA have been carried out on the following projects:

• Congestion- and time-based road pricing (PhD and MSc, Leeds);
• Traffic demand management measures for York (EU);
• Traffic management measures for kerb guided bus operations (EPSRC);
• EVSC: Network effect of external vehicle speed controls (DETR);
• UTMT01: Selective vehicle priority (DETR);
• Evaluation of a partially signalised roundabout off M25 (W.S. Atkins for BAA);
• Public transport priority along a corridor (York C.C.).