TRAFFIC CONTROL STRATEGIES FOR THE HANSHIN EXPRESSWAY NETWORK

The Hanshin Expressway Public Corporation, which is engaged in construction and management of urban expressways in the Hanshin area, the second most densely populated area in Japan next to the Tokyo metropolis, has been developing and extending its traffic surveillance and control system since 1969. Operating this system, the Corporation is performing traffic control strategies aiming to maximize utilization of the expressway and to increase level of service in the expressway. The system has 838 vehicle detectors, 47 television cameras, 395 motorist aid phones and 154 variable message signs as field equipment and a computer system composed of a computer, three mini computers and eight micro computers, displays and control panels as control centre equipment. Main actions of control strategies are information service to provide drivers with real time information that enables them to drive safely and divert to alternate route if necessary and ramp control to reduce recurrent congestion and minimize effect of nonrecurrent congestion. (TRRL)

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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Papers from the 9th IRF World Meeting, Roads Into the Future--Urban Transportation--TS6, held in Stockholm, June 1-5, 1981.
• Corporate Authors:

  Institution of Civil Engineers

  One Great George Street, Westminster
  London,   United Kingdom  SW1P 3AA

  Svenska Vaegfoereningens Foerlags AB

  P.O. Box 27115
  S-102 52 Stockholm,   Sweden 
• Authors:
  • Terada, K
• Publication Date: 1981

Media Info

• Features: Figures;
• Pagination: p. 205-216
• Serial:
  • Publication of: Institution of Civil Engineers
  • Publisher: Institution of Civil Engineers

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Computers; Conferences; Driver information systems; Equipment; Expressways; Information processing; Surveillance; Traffic control; Traffic surveillance; Urban areas; Urban highways; Vehicle detectors
• Geographic Terms: Japan
• ITRD Terms: 8525: Conference; 8673: Digital computer; 3674: Equipment; 8053: Japan; 2752: Motorway; 9101: Surveillance; 654: Traffic control; 313: Urban area
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00348111
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute (VTI)
• ISBN: 0-7277-0109-6
• Report/Paper Numbers: Proceeding
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Mar 30 1982 12:00AM