ROUTE 8 TRAFFIC CONTROL AND SURVILLANCE SYSTEM - DESIGN OF A RULE BASED TRAFFIC PLAN SYSTEM FOR TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT OF FREEWAY, TUNNEL AND BRIDGE

The Hong Kong Route 8 project is one of the latest major infrastructure projects to build new highway sections to interconnect its international airport to other areas in the city. Due to the unique geographical characteristics in Hong Kong, it is common that a combination of tunnels and bridges exist in a relatively short section of highway. This imposes complex traffic management requirements especially full lane control strategy is required for effective tunnel and bridge management. An advanced Traffic Control and Surveillance System (TCSS) is being designed for Route 8 operations. This paper presents design of the system in particular for its functions for rule based traffic plans that encompass the control of tunnels, bridges and open sections of highways. Rule based plan function is the function in the system that automatically generates a traffic response plan based on the latest condition of an incident or queue by using a set of rules. The key advantage of such function is to automate control operations for a large quantity of traffic control devices, eliminate the need to prepare dedicated traffic plans for every incident conditions, and the need to modify traffic plans whenever traffic devices are added, removed or re-located. For the covering abstract see ITRD E134653.

• Authors:
  • Lam, J K
  • LEE, R
  • CHYLINSKI, R
• Publication Date: 2006

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 8p
• Serial:
  • PROCEEDINGS OF THE 13th ITS WORLD CONGRESS, LONDON, 8-12 OCTOBER 2006

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Bridges; Conferences; Incident detection; Intelligent transportation systems; Queuing; Traffic congestion; Traffic control; Traffic lanes; Tunnels; Urban areas
• Geographic Terms: Hong Kong (China)
• ITRD Terms: 3455: Bridge; 8525: Conference; 632: Congestion (traffic); 8131: Hong Kong; 1632: Incident detection; 8735: Intelligent transport system; 6594: Queue; 2827: Traffic lane; 3374: Tunnel; 313: Urban area
• Subject Areas: Bridges and other structures; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01087062
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• Files: ITRD
• Created Date: Jan 29 2008 9:32AM