Balancing Efficiency and Equity of Ramp Meters

An efficient ramp control strategy may not be politically attractive due to its negative impacts on equity. This paper addresses this issue and presents a new objective for ramp metering—minimizing weighted travel time—which is able to balance efficiency and equity. A quasioptimization/simulation approach is used to achieve the new objective. BEEX, a new family of control strategies with various degrees of equity consideration, are developed and used to demonstrate this approach.

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• Authors:
  • Levinson, David
  • Zhang, Lei
• Publication Date: 2005-6

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: pp 477-481
• Serial:
  • Journal of Transportation Engineering
  • Volume: 131
  • Issue Number: 6
  • Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
  • ISSN: 0733-947X
  • Serial URL: https://ascelibrary.org/journal/jtepbs

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Control systems; Equity (Justice); Optimization; Ramp metering; Simulation; Travel time
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Society; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01000492
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: May 28 2005 7:39PM