MODELING AND FILTERING OF FREEWAY TRAFFIC FLOW

In the Netherlands a freeway control and signaling system has been installed on several freeways. One purpose of the system is to improve traffic flow and avoid the development of congestion. In the paper the first steps towards the aim are set in the development of a traffic model and of a filter that estimates the state of traffic at every time instant. The proposed model is simulated for various traffic situations and modified to achieve realistic performance. The filter is presented and its performance when applied to simulated traffic data shown.

• Corporate Authors:

  Mathematisch Centrum

  Amsterdam,   Netherlands 
• Authors:
  • Smulders, S A
• Publication Date: 1987

Media Info

• Pagination: 22 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Estimating; Filters; Freeways; Highway traffic; Traffic simulation
• Old TRIS Terms: Freeway traffic
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00478385
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: CWI-OS-R8706
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jan 31 1989 12:00AM