Advantages of Synchronizing Vehicles Intersection Access

An intersection area is a common space that must be efficiently shared over time between vehicles with conflicting trajectories from several road lanes. Numerous traffic light control (TLC) strategies have been presented to address this. The main objective is periodically switching intersection access between road lanes by permitting vehicles sequentially, parallelly, or synchronously. This work addresses which intersection access type is more efficient for throughput, travel delays, fuel consumption, and associated tailpipe emissions. The authors compare the performance of five state-of-the-art TLC approaches in two types of road networks. Among the five TLC approaches, three are sequential, one is parallel, and the other is synchronous. In the first road network, all four intersections are homogeneous with four legs. The second network is heterogeneous, with two intersections with four legs and the other two with three legs, i.e., T-intersections. The authors also consider two maximum speeds (30 and 50 km/h) representing low-speed urban settings. SUMO simulation results suggest all access types have similar throughput, with a minor advantage of synchronous access (up to 3%). However, compared to the other best approaches, synchronous intersection access significantly reduces travel time loss (up to 130.5%) and fuel consumption (up to 37.2%).

• Record URL:
  • https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trpro.2024.02.078
• Record URL:
  • http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352146524001327
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  • © 2024 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. Abstract reprinted with permission of Elsevier.
• Authors:
  • Reddy, Radha
  • Almeida, Luis
  • Santos, Pedro
  • Tovar, Eduardo
• Conference:
  • 25th Euro Working Group on Transportation Meeting (EWGT 2023)
  • Location: Santander , Spain
  • Date: 2023-9-6 to 2023-9-8
• Publication Date: 2024

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 475-482
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Procedia
  • Volume: 78
  • Issue Number: 0
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 2352-1465
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/23521465/
• Publication flags:

  Open Access (libre)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Fuel consumption; Highway traffic control; Signalized intersections; Synchronous control; Travel time
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01918232
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: May 11 2024 5:20PM