MANAGEMENT OF URBAN FREEWAY TRAFFIC

The advent of computer-controlled electronic freeway surveillance and control systems in the past decade represents a potentially significant new operational tool for traffic engineers in large urban areas. Surveillance system goals and techniques for achieving these goals are reviewed in this paper with particular emphasis on the problem of managing unexpected capacity-reducing incident situations. Recent research has demonstrated the feasibility of detecting incidents from traffic flow data, which is desirable for surveillance purposes because this information can be used to implement control strategies which attempt in real-time to divert some freeway traffic to alternate routes. Some of the operational problems involved with freeway traffic management are discussed, particularly the generation of false alarms by detection algorithms and driver willingness to be diverted to alternate routes.

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• Authors:
  • Cook, A R
• Publication Date: 1974-12

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 141-149
• Serial:
  • Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering
  • Volume: 1
  • Issue Number: 2
  • Publisher: National Research Council of Canada
  • ISSN: 0315-1468
  • Serial URL: http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/loi/cjce

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Computers; Control; Design volume; Freeway operations; Highway traffic control; Surveillance; Traffic flow
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00096158
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 15 1975 12:00AM