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Integrated motorway traffic flow control

Papamichail Ioannis, Iordanidou Georgia-Roumpini, Roncoli Claudio, Papageorgiou Markos

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URI: http://purl.tuc.gr/dl/dias/F2B54DCD-2A0F-4C25-8C0F-2EF1EE4E487F
Year 2017
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Bibliographic Citation I. Papamichail, G.-R. Iordanidou, C. Roncoli and M. Papageorgiou, "Integrated motorway traffic flow control," presented at 8th International Congress on Transportation Research in Greece, Thessaloniki, Greece, 2017.
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The development and deployment of simple, yet efficient, coordinated and integrated control tools for motorway traffic control remains a challenge. A generic integrated feedback-based motorway traffic flow control concept has been proposed recently by the authors of this paper. It is based on the combination and suitable extension of control algorithms and tools proposed or deployed in other studies, such as ramp metering or VSL (Variable Speed Limit)-enabled cascade-feedback mainstream traffic flow control, and allows for consideration of multiple bottlenecks. The new controller enables coordination of ramp metering actions at a series of on-ramps, as well as integration with VSL control actions towards a common control goal, which is bottleneck throughput maximization. While doing this, the approach considers a pre-specified (desired) balancing of the incurred delays upstream of the employed actuators, via a suitably designed knapsack problem. Despite the multitude of the offered configurations, options and possibilities, the generic control algorithm remains simple, efficient and suitable for field implementation. The control algorithm is demonstrated and evaluated using validated macroscopic traffic flow models for two case studies and for a number of different scenarios.

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