EVALUATING THE BENEFITS AND INTERACTIONS OF ROUTE GUIDANCE AND TRAFFIC CONTROL STRATEGIES USING SIMULATION. IN: CONFERENCE RECORD OF PAPERS PRESENTED AT THE FIRST VEHICLE NAVIGATION AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS CONFERENCE, TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA - SEPTEMBER 11-13, 1989

In order to estimate the potential benefits of route guidance and to examine the interactions between route guidance and other traffic management studies, a simulation study was performed on a representative traffic network consisting of a freeway and a parallel arterial. Different freeway and arterial incident scenarios were examined and, for each scenario, the impact of having various percentages of drivers equipped with a route guidance system was investigated. The incremental benefits of route guidance are found to be the greatest for the first 20% of drivers with in-vehicle units, but further benefits continue to be obtained when the market penetration increases up to 100%. These benefits are the largest for incident scenarios, and increase as the incident duration increases. It is speculated that for normal traffic conditions, only a few drivers need to re-route themselves to maintain an equilibrium assignment. However, an incident causes a greater disturbance in the equilibrium and therefore requires a greater percentage of drivers to re-route themselves before the new equilibrium can be reached.

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  • The Conference was sponsored jointly by IEEE , the Vehicular Technology Society, Toronto Chapter of IEEE, the Ontario Ministry of Transportation, and Transport Canada.
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• Authors:
  • Rakha, H
  • Van Aerde, M
  • Case, E R
  • Ugge, A
• Publication Date: 1989-9

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 296-303

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Arterial highways; Automation; Benefits; Communication systems; Driver information systems; Driving; Equilibrium (Mechanics); Equilibrium (Systems); Highway traffic control; Mobile communication systems; Navigation; Route guidance; Simulation; Streets; Traffic assignment; Traffic control; Traffic equilibrium
• Uncontrolled Terms: Interaction; Traffic networks
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00610921
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0-9692316-2-8
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 31 1996 12:00AM