Application of ALINEA Ramp Control Algorithm to Freeway Traffic Flow on Approaches to Bosphorus Strait Crossing Bridges

Beginning from the 1960s sustainability has been being pointed out as an important criterion in development which made many countries plan sustainability originated progressing policies. The decision makers, planning to construct a third roadway bridge to connect Asia and Europe continents on to the Bosphorus in Istanbul metropolitan area, first have to evaluate the exaggerated road traffic congestion phenomenon. Before making such a non-environmentally friend decision, advanced traffic managing strategies have to be incorporated to regularize the current pattern of traffic flows on the existing road network that prevails the road based urban transport. Ramp control is an efficient strategy that has been employed to prevent recurrent traffic congestion since 1970s. With the employment of ramp control applications, several benefits of ramp management, including i.e., the increase on the level of traffic safety, the increase on traveling speeds and consequently decrease on traveling times, the increase on the level-of-service, increase on energy consumption efficiency, decrease on environmental impacts, and increase on user satisfaction, have been experienced. The present paper aims to impose advanced traffic management schemes, specifically the ramp control, on the nonefficient utilization of freeway approaches to existing Bosphorus bridges as an alternative to a third bridge crossing.

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  • Abstract reprinted with permission from Elsevier.
• Authors:
  • Demiral, Caglar
  • Celikoglu, Hilmi Berk
• Publication Date: 2011

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; Maps; Photos; References;
• Pagination: pp 364-371
• Monograph Title: The State of the Art in the European Quantitative Oriented Transportation and Logistics Research. 14th European Working Group on Transportation; 26th Mini Euro Conference, and 1st European Scientific Conference on Air Transport
• Serial:
  • Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences
  • Volume: 20
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 1877-0428
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/18770428/53
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  Open Access (libre)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Highway traffic control; Level of service; Ramp metering; Traffic congestion; Traffic flow
• Geographic Terms: Bosporus (Turkey)
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; I73: Traffic Control;

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• Accession Number: 01365352
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Mar 20 2012 12:16PM