Feedback-based integrated motorway traffic flow control with delay balancingFeedback-based integrated motorway traffic flow control with delay balancing Peer-Reviewed Journal Publication Δημοσίευση σε Περιοδικό με Κριτές 2018-04-162017enThe 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 is proposed in 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 variable speed limit (VSL)-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, toward 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 a validated macroscopic traffic flow model for a number of scenarios.The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Research Council under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP/2007-2013) / ERC Grant Agreement n. 321132, project TRAMAN21.http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems1892319-2329Iordanidou_et_al_IEEE Trans. Intell. Transp. Syst._18(9)_2017.pdfChania [Greece]Library of TUC2018-04-16application/pdf1.4 MBfree Iordanidou Georgia-Roumpini Ιορδανιδου Γεωργια-Ρουμπινη Papamichail Ioannis Παπαμιχαηλ Ιωαννης Roncoli Claudio Roncoli Claudio Papageorgiou Markos Παπαγεωργιου Μαρκος Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Delays Feedback control Actuators Regulators Algorithm design and analysis Vehicles