International Scientific Journals
of Scientific Technical Union of Mechanical Engineering "Industry 4.0"

Transport has irrepressible contribution for the effective development of economy and society. But, these contributions are exceeded by harmful environmental consequences that transport growth causes especially in urban areas. Air pollution, acid rain, noise, climate change are just few of the problems which every urban area is dealing with. Hence, it is very important to provide development of the transport that at the same time could increase its sustainability and minimize environmental degradation. Numerous sustainable transport solutions are available with a potential to decrease these negative influences and promote mobility with higher sustainability. This paper presents a review of sustainable solutions, successfully applied in practice, as guidance for those urban areas that are dealing with the environmental problems from transport, but still are a step behind in undertaking activities.

Choosing a model, shaping and using a model represent a sensitive stage of the transport system planning process. Considering the fact that contemporary software packages exist, based on modern technology and long – term experience it is decided to rely on the software package PTV Vision VISUM, for forecast in the traffic in Bitola town. Synthetic model is designed by this software package, modeling is done on existing situation and model’s calibration. In this paper will be represented testing on the model for transport demand for the city of Bitola, their validation.

In order to establish this model, several independent variables of aggregate level and dependent variables have been taken into account for traffic production of a region for a period of 24 hours. The objective of this paper is to identify and estimate the main variables which are significant for development of a suitable model for forecasting the traffic production for Anamorava region. Establishment and assessment of a model will be done using techniques such as Multiple Regression Analysis (MRA) and Radial Basis Function Neural Network (RBFNN). The results gained according to these two techniques will be compared to find out differences. In this regard performance analysis through indicators R², ME, RSME which are also used to show errors in forecasting. The results are in favour of RBFNN model because it performs better than MRA in forecasting traffic production.

Air pollution problems in urban areas mainly can be connected with the high amounts of toxic exhaust emissions, generated from the growing use of vehicles that use fossil fuels. Roads in urban areas are full with vehicles, and their management is important not just for smoothing traffic flows, but also for reduction of air pollution. Various ways could be considered in which traffic management can affect local air pollution. But, is not just traffic management that should be considered solely. Attention should be given to the behavior of the drivers, which also has his impact on air pollution levels. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to show the importance that traffic control and management as well as drivers’ behavior together have on exhaust emission pollution. In addition to that, measures with their effects in the both categories: traffic management and drivers’ behavior are proposed.

The development of information technologies are taking part in all spheres of human lives. In the traffic engineering shows a big need for application of advanced computing tools.

Softwares for traffic analysis except that allow precise, visual and multifactor analysis of the imagined or proposed traffic solutions, they save time and money as opposed to the site testing. For proper development of the traffic, it is needed detailed and comprehensive planning of the process that will contribute to improving the traffic infrastructure.

One of the crucial steps before using any software for traffic analysis is the collection of data with purpouse to establish the relevant traffic loads for the examined area. Namely, to get the real realistic picture of the traffic situation, it is necesarry recording the traffic to get daily, monthly and annual imbalance on traffic intensity in the investigated location. From the data obtained, the software will use the relevant data that realistically reflect the traffic situation.

In the present work will be shown simulation of the most critical crossroads in the town of Gostivar in the two versions of existing and newly-condition situation using the software tool PTV VISSIM 7. Here will be analysed the most important parameters of the current traffic flow – the time losts in order to indicate the need of change the way of the traffic management of this intersection.

Vehicles growth has continuous negative influence on air pollution problem especially in urban areas. Exhaust emissions from vehicles contribute for a significant amount of toxic air polluters, harmful both for the environment and health. This underlines the need for development and implementation of technological measures aimed towards emission control and reduction. Technological measures are under continuous research and innovative development, and as a result vehicles have the opportunity to be equipped with different solutions for emission control. Used technological measures at the moment, as well as the next generation measures are all included in the categorized review presented is this paper. Also, a suitable kind of technological measures for countries like Macedonia without industry for car production and with older vehicle fleet are presented.

The contemporary lifestyle leads to rapid increase of number of motorized traffic participants thus, there is a need of traffic planning. The task of any modern traffic planning is creating such road network that will be reviewed, safe, with appropriate capacity, economical in terms of exploitation costs and cost for building, also designed to be compatible with structure of the city. In the field of traffic engineering exist a wide range of software packages for different purposes, with different performance and quality. One of them is world leading software package for traffic analyzes and forecast of transport demand, PTV Vision VISUM.

In this paper will be represented the steps of the methodology for calculation of transport demand, starting from setting the background, drawing the traffic network until the forecast using an appropriate software package PTV Vision – VISUM in which the base is standard four step transport demand model.

Significant part of air pollution control strategy can be achieved through measures in urban transport planning. The need for this analysis is based on the fact that transport planning decisions are often made without proper consideration of their air pollution consequences. This inevitably deteriorates air quality in urban areas, particularly in those areas which already have problem with urban air pollution. The paper deals with transport planning approach towards reducing air pollution and this approach is analyzed through short-term and long-term measures, recommended for Bitola. Implementation of these measures has a potential to contribute for improvement of the current problem with air pollution.

For urban transport to be competitive and sustainable, it has to be smart. Cities worldwide use smart technologies to integrate transport systems, minimize costs and improve user experience. The concept of smart transport is a hot topic between city leaders looking to find a wave of innovation to more sustainable and prosperous cities [1]. The city of Skopje is on a good path towards the development of smart urban transport. Hence, the purpose of the paper is to present progress made in the city of Skopje implementing smart measures in urban transport. More important, the analysis recommends additional smart measures and directions with a potential to support and strengthen sustainable urban mobility features.

Information about non-motorized transport, i.e., cycling and walking, are needed for planning and management support of urban transport systems. However, in the city of Skopje, monitoring programs still aren’t established by transport officials on regular basis. Hence, transport planners and researchers lack bicycle and pedestrian counts for managing traffic demand. Having in mind principles for comprehensive monitoring as a framework for assessment, this paper summarizes approaches and recommendations for initiating monitoring program in the city of Skopje. Also, describes steps in establishing monitoring program and identifies possible application of the analyzed monitored data for non-motorized transport.