Adaptive Traffic Signal Control System (ACS-Lite) for Wolf Road, Albany, New York
Adaptive Control Software Lite (ACS-Lite) is a traffic signal timing optimization system that dynamically adjusts traffic signal timings to meet current traffic demands. The purpose of this research project was to deploy and evaluate the ACS-Lite adaptive traffic control system on a congested urban corridor in New York State (NYS). In this case, the Wolf Road Corridor in Albany, New York, was chosen. The primary goal was to document the experiences and key lessons learned from the deployment and evaluation regarding how an adaptive control system can be deployed, the advantages and disadvantages of the system, and whether it is suitable for use in other corridors in NYS. The results of the project showed that for heavily congested corridors adaptive control can improve flow within its own system, but may cause extra delays at the boundaries where there are interactions with other traffic control systems. Therefore, a more comprehensive control/management framework may be needed in some cases. The specific ACS-Lite software also needed to be upgraded and improved in order to work for the selected corridor, which caused delays to this project.
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Corporate Authors:
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 110 8th Street, JEC 4037
Troy, NY United States 12180-3590New York State Department of Transportation
50 Wolf Road
Albany, NY United States 12232Federal Highway Administration
1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
Washington, DC United States 20590 -
Authors:
- Ban, Xuegang (Jeff)
- 0000-0003-3605-971X
- Kamga, Camille
- Wang, Xiaokun (Cara)
- Wojtowicz, Jeffrey
- Klepadlo, Eric
- Sun, Zhanbo
- Mouskos, Kyriacos
- Publication Date: 2014-10
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Digital/other
- Edition: Final Report
- Features: Figures; References; Tables;
- Pagination: 96p
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Adaptive control; Before and after studies; Benefit cost analysis; Evaluation; Software; Traffic congestion; Traffic signal timing; Urban areas
- Geographic Terms: Albany (New York)
- Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; I73: Traffic Control;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01546160
- Record Type: Publication
- Report/Paper Numbers: C-10-13
- Files: TRIS, ATRI, USDOT, STATEDOT
- Created Date: Dec 2 2014 9:29AM