Chapter 495: Separation of people and vehicles

The internal traffic of the urban unit around the island realizes the separation of most people and vehicles.

In order to prevent pedestrians from crossing the road, the pedestrian corridors are separated from the road, except for the reserved places for passengers to get on and off the vehicle.

The lower part of the partition has a height of 1.2 meters and is composed of steel structure and solid wood panels, and the upper part is separated by tempered glass.

Such a structure is not afraid of the danger caused by the bear child damaging the glass, but also connects the corridor with the space of all stores, and ensures the lighting needs of the corridor and the store.

The stores and corridors form a relatively enclosed environment, which not only avoids dust from the road, but also insulates heat and sound, and all pedestrians are not affected by falling objects.

The places reserved for passengers to get on and off the vehicle are not symmetrical, and if there is a temporary parking space on this side of the highway, there will be no parking spaces on the other side of the road, and a certain distance must be staggered.

This makes it more difficult for pedestrians to cross the road.

For people with a high level of intelligence and the freedom to choose, anything is better than a blockage.

While making it more difficult for pedestrians to cross the road, it should also provide a more convenient way to cross the street than crossing the road.

Therefore, Minsheng Company has also set up a pedestrian bridge above the corridor, so that pedestrians in the corridor can easily reach the pedestrian bridge through the stairs set in the corridor.

There are pedestrian bridges almost every 300 meters, and two parallel escalators are installed on each pedestrian bridge.

These escalators also have fingerprint authentication switches at both ends, allowing you to activate the escalator and take pedestrians from one end of the pedestrian bridge to the other by simply verifying your identity with your finger on the side of the escalator.

Such a setting can effectively save power resources and improve the efficiency of escalator use.

Moreover, these fingerprint authentication switches are directly connected to the online platform, and if the system detects that the same minor registrant has been used more than four times in a short period of time, the user's access to the escalator will be suspended.

This is to prevent those bear children from playing back and forth on the escalator alone, resulting in a waste of resources and safety hazards.

If an adult performs this kind of boring operation on the escalator of a pedestrian bridge in a very short period of time, they will be billed after four times.

Charge a dollar for each additional escalator start, and use financial penalties to reduce these boring behaviors.

Semi-enclosed corridors and staggered parking spots make it more difficult for pedestrians to cross the motorway at will.

The more convenient and faster pedestrian bridge allows more people to take the initiative to choose to cross the street from the overpass, almost completely eliminating the vice of "Chinese-style crossing the road".

For those registrants who still have to risk their lives to cross the motorway, Minsheng can only limit them by deducting their integrity points, and cannot be stopped by other more direct penalties such as the law as in the case of Tuvalu.

After the separation of people and vehicles, those intersections are the biggest obstacle in the process of vehicle traffic.

Since the real world has vehicles that can drive at high speeds, the traffic in all directions has caused problems for the safety of vehicles.

The more intersections, the more information the driver's attention needs to focus on.

Look at the front and back, left and right, up and down, listen to all directions, and pay attention to the traffic signs everywhere.

The more vehicles passing through the intersection, the more complicated the situation becomes.

Such a complex vehicle driving environment simply cannot tolerate the slightest sloppiness on the part of the driver.

In the urban unit around the island, a high degree of vehicle sharing has been realized, and at the same time, the low cost of taking a taxi has inhibited the willingness of individuals to buy a car to a certain extent.

So, the total number of vehicles on this roundabout is not very large.

But the more this happens, the easier it is to reduce the driver's safety alertness when crossing the intersection.

If the traffic light is set up at each intersection, the fixed time of changing the light cannot be the most reasonable command like a person, which seriously affects the operation efficiency of the vehicle.

The so-called intelligent transportation systems, which are implemented by modern technology, can be automatically dispatched according to the number of vehicles passing through each intersection.

However, the investment and operation and maintenance costs of these systems are too high, and Wei Minsheng does not think that this is the most ideal traffic command and dispatch system.

Moreover, as a hub project to solve the problem of traffic congestion at intersections, overpasses are more complicated lane signs and some traffic lights are set up, which is easier to distract drivers and cause some driving safety hazards.

In order to achieve the best vehicle driving efficiency, according to the suggestions of relevant technical personnel in Huaxia and the actual situation that there are no large super-high vehicles running in the roundabout, Minsheng Company has set up a small interchange system with unified specifications at several intersections of the third ring road.

Since the main roads of the roundabout urban unit are all two-way six-lane, each road is twenty-four meters wide.

Therefore, each intersection is equivalent to the existence of a circular space with a diameter of about 33 meters.

Minsheng's small interchange system makes full use of this circular space, completely diverting vehicles from different driving directions.

This interchange system is divided into three levels, with a one-way circular passage at the lowest level and a straight passage on the second and third floors.

The three-storey lane relies on a large cylindrical pier in the center of the circular passage as the main bearing point, and several other small piers as auxiliary stress points, forming a stable whole.

If you want to turn left or make a U-turn, you can move into the left-turn lane and choose the direction you want to drive through the roundabout at the bottom.

Due to the characteristics of the circular passage, vehicles traveling around the passage can choose the driving route in four directions at will, even if they miss the intersection, they can turn around again.

The straight lane in the middle can be accessed.

Although there is only one straight lane in each direction, if there are too many vehicles going straight, they can still take advantage of the left-turn lane and divert vehicles through the turntable.

Vehicles turning right are even simpler, and due to the special separation of the roundabout, vehicles entering the corridor can only enter the leftmost lane of the three lanes, although there are four directions for the exit.

Underneath the middle overhead lane is a green belt, under which the right-turn lane is completely separated from the straight and circular passages.

Therefore, the vehicle turning right will not be affected by the vehicle driving in the roundabout from the left-turn lane at all, thereby improving the driving safety factor and traffic efficiency.

All vehicles can pass through the intersection without waiting, especially those going straight and turning right, with little to no interference from other lanes, making it more efficient than those with complex overpasses.

In addition to this, other intersections use small roundabouts to solve the problem of vehicle diversion.

Through the separation of people and vehicles and the separation of vehicles in different driving directions, the traffic in the entire roundabout has achieved a completely traffic light-free operating environment.

Vehicles driving inside the roundabout can travel at a stable speed of more than 60 kilometers under the condition of fully ensuring driving safety.