Integrated Design and Operation of Urban Arterials with Reversible Lanes

Reversible lane operation, an effective strategy to relieve traffic congestion in urban arterials, must interact with other conventional traffic management and control components in the arterial, including left-turn restriction, lane channelization, and signal timings. This paper develops a lane-based optimization model to guide the integrated setting of reversible lanes and other traffic management measures in an arterial to maximize its operational performance. The optimization problem is formulated as a multi-objective mix-integer non-linear programming model, which is then transformed into a single-objective mix-integer linear programming formulation for an optimal solution. Results from extensive numerical analyses have demonstrated the effectiveness of the proposed model.

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• Supplemental Notes:
  • This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AHB35 Managed Lanes.
• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Research Board

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• Authors:
  • Zhao, Jing
  • Ma, Wanjing
  • Liu, Yue
  • Yang, Xiaoguang
• Conference:
  • Transportation Research Board 93rd Annual Meeting
  • Location: Washington DC
  • Date: 2014-1-12 to 2014-1-16
• Date: 2014

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 20p
• Monograph Title: TRB 93rd Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Arterial highways; Design; Lane distribution; Left turns; Optimization; Reversible traffic lanes; Traffic signal timing
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01517519
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: 14-1408
• Files: PRP, TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Mar 10 2014 9:23AM