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Estimating the Floor Area Ratio of the Vehicular Infrastructure Network Based on Road Grid Cell

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As the material basis for vehicular network, road infrastructure network plays an important role in transportation. Reasonable road network density and traffic demand work as a good foundation for easing the traffic pressure. Based on the defined road grid cell in a grid network, this paper proposes a model to estimate the floor area ratio upper limit from the perspective of traffic demand-supply equilibrium. Based on a typical scenario, an automatic tool was designed, and some parameters were set up to do numerical simulation. The simulation results indicate that the floor area ratio upper limit and the road grid cell area followed the power-law distribution, and the approximate power exponent was −0.866. When the private car percent transferred to 1% of the public transport, the floor area ratio upper limit increased by 2.8%. In the meanwhile, the economic benefits increased by RMB 44.8 million at a road grid cell of 40,000 m2 with the floor area ratio of 2. Finally, it is found that a simple floor area ratio value is deficient in comparison with the current floor area ratio regulations of Jinan. And the corresponding road grid cell area can’t be neglected and should be comprehensively considered.

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Acknowledgements

The paper was written when the first author visited NDSU as a visiting scholar supported by China Scholarship Council. The data collection and calculation was assisted by Zhang Hong, an undergraduate student.

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Funded by Shandong Province Higher Educational Science and Technology Program (J17KA208).

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  1. Provincial Key Laboratory of Road & Traffic Engineering of Shandong, Shandong Jianzhu University, 1000 Fengming Road, Lingang Development Zone, Jinan, China

    Meiling Li & Baiying Shi

  2. Shandong Transportation Institute, Jinan, China

    Jin Ran

  3. School of Computer Science and Technology, Shandong Jianzhu University, 1000 Fengming Road, Lingang Development Zone, Jinan, China

    Xiaofei Niu

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Li, M., Ran, J., Niu, X. et al. Estimating the Floor Area Ratio of the Vehicular Infrastructure Network Based on Road Grid Cell. Mobile Netw Appl 25, 650–659 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11036-019-01226-6

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