Optimal Control for Freeway Using a New Dynamic Model

In this paper, a new dynamic macroscopic model different from the Payne model is considered to solve the freeway control problem by means of simulations. Firstly, both ramp metering and variable speed limits are taken into account to aim at minimizing the total time spent. Secondly, to show the diverse suppressing results for shock wave by using VSL measures, three typical situations are taken into account. And then figures are put out to provide the result that in various traffic situations, the impacts of VSL may show large differences.

• Record URL:
  https://doi.org/10.1061/9780784412442.073
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • © 2012 American Society of Civil Engineers.
• Corporate Authors:

  American Society of Civil Engineers

  1801 Alexander Bell Drive
  Reston, VA  United States  20191-4400
• Authors:
  • Jiang, Nan
  • Zhang, Weihua
  • Zhang, Shengkai
  • Xie, XiaoLin
• Conference:
  • Twelfth COTA International Conference of Transportation Professionals
  • Location: Beijing , China
  • Date: 2012-8-3 to 2012-8-6
• Publication Date: 2012-8

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 718-725
• Monograph Title: CICTP 2012: Multimodal Transportation Systems—Convenient, Safe, Cost-Effective, Efficient

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Dynamic models; Freeway operations; Macroscopic traffic flow; Optimization; Ramp metering; Traffic simulation; Variable speed limits
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01500327
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 9780784412442
• Files: TRIS, ASCE
• Created Date: Nov 12 2013 2:35PM