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A multi-class lane-changing advisory system for freeway merging sections

Sharma Salil, Papamichail Ioannis, Nadi Ali, van Lint Hans, Tavasszy, Lorant A, Snelder, Maaike, 1980-

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URI: http://purl.tuc.gr/dl/dias/0157CF0F-986C-4C6A-8B3C-8D62ADBD6541
Year 2021
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Bibliographic Citation S. Sharma, I. Papamichail, A. Nadi, H. van Lint, L. Tavasszy, and M. Snelder, “A multi-class lane-changing advisory system for freeway merging sections,” in 16th IFAC Symposium on Control in Transportation Systems CTS 2021, Lille, France, 2021, vol. 54, no. 2, pp. 93-98, doi: 10.1016/j.ifacol.2021.06.014. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ifacol.2021.06.014
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Cooperative intelligent transportation systems (C-ITS) support the exchange of information between vehicles and infrastructure (V2I or I2V). This paper presents an in-vehicle C-ITS application to improve traffic efficiency around a merging section. This application balances the distribution of traffic over the available lanes of a freeway, by issuing targeted lane-changing advice to a selection of vehicles. We add to existing research by embedding multiple vehicle classes in the lane-changing advisory framework. We use a multi-class multi-lane macroscopic traffic flow model to design a feedback-feedforward control law that is based on a linear quadratic regulator (LQR). The performance of the proposed system is evaluated using a microscopic traffic simulator. The results indicate that the lane-changing advisory system is able to suppress Shockwaves in traffic flow and can significantly alleviate congestion. Besides bringing substantial travel time benefits around merging sections of up to nearly 21%, the system dramatically reduces the variance of travel time losses in the system.

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