Asymmetry Analysis of Inbound/Outbound Car Traffic Load distribution in Luxembourg

Abstract

The country of Luxembourg possesses a road network topology that provides direct highway connectivities to its three neighbouring countries. Its economic strength attracts cross-border commuters who represent approximately half of the work force in Luxembourg. As a consequence, significant flows of vehicles coming from France, Germany and Belgium significantly contribute to the daily traffic load distribution of Luxembourg. In this paper we propose to analyse the mobility of drivers in Luxembourg, as well as cross-border traffic. We use a loop detector traffic dataset, based on the road traffic counting architecture of Ponts et Chaussées (PCH) recorded in 2010. We propose to describe the behaviour of drivers in the spatial and time domains for the Luxembourg use case. Our first contribution is the analysis of the daily traffic demand profile of each counter and their classification into inbound, outbound and neutral profiles. The evaluation of these demand profiles will help to better understand and meet the actual demand of commuters. Our second contribution is the detection of inbound and outbound anomalies and the analysis of typical cross-border traffic characteristics in Luxembourg.