Distributed coordinated signal timing optimization in connected transportation networks

This paper presents a Distributed-Coordinated methodology for signal timing optimization in connected urban street networks. The underlying assumption is that all vehicles and intersections are connected and intersections can share information with each other. The novelty of the work arises from reformulating the signal timing optimization problem from a central architecture, where all signal timing parameters are optimized in one mathematical program, to a decentralized approach, where a mathematical program controls the timing of only a single intersection. As a result of this distribution, the complexity of the problem is significantly reduced thus, the proposed approach is real-time and scalable. Furthermore, distributed mathematical programs continuously coordinate with each other to avoid finding locally optimal solutions and to move towards global optimality. The authors proposed a real-time and scalable solution technique to solve the problem and applied it to several case study networks under various demand patterns. The algorithm controlled queue length and maximized intersection throughput (between 1% and 5% increase compared to the actuated coordinated signals optimized in VISTRO) and reduced travel time (between 17% and 48% decrease compared to actuated coordinated signals) in all cases.

• Record URL:
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2017.04.017
• Record URL:
  http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0968090X17301298
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  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/issn/0968090X
• Supplemental Notes:
  • Abstract reprinted with permission of Elsevier.
• Authors:
  • Al Islam, S M A Bin
  • Hajbabaie, Ali
• Publication Date: 2017-7

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 272-285
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies
  • Volume: 80
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 0968-090X
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/0968090X

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Case studies; Mobile communication systems; Networks; Optimization; Oversaturation (Traffic flow); Programming (Mathematics); Traffic signal control systems; Vehicular ad hoc networks
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01639311
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jun 5 2017 10:09AM