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- Title
Integrated Variable Speed Limits Control and Ramp Metering for Bottleneck Regions on Freeway.
- Authors
Ma, Ming-hui; Yang, Qing-fang; Liang, Shi-dong; Li, Zhi-lin
- Abstract
To enhance the efficiency of the existing freeway system and therefore to mitigate traffic congestion and related problems on the freeway mainline lane-drop bottleneck region, the advanced strategy for bottleneck control is essential. This paper proposes a method that integrates variable speed limits and ramp metering for freeway bottleneck region control to relieve the chaos in bottleneck region. To this end, based on the analyses of spatial-temporal patterns of traffic flow, a macroscopic traffic flow model is extended to describe the traffic flow operating characteristic by considering the impacts of variable speed limits in mainstream bottleneck region. In addition, to achieve the goal of balancing the priority of the vehicles on mainline and on-ramp, increasing capacity, and reducing travel delay on bottleneck region, an improved control model, as well as an advanced control strategy that integrates variable speed limits and ramp metering, is developed. The proposed method is tested in simulation for a real freeway infrastructure feed and calibrates real traffic variables. The results demonstrate that the proposed method can substantially improve the traffic flow efficiency of mainline and on-ramp and enhance the quality of traffic flow at the investigated freeway mainline bottleneck.
- Subjects
VARIABLE speed limits; RAMP metering (Traffic engineering); TRAFFIC flow; HIGHWAY capacity; TRAFFIC engineering
- Publication
Mathematical Problems in Engineering, 2015, Vol 2015, p1
- ISSN
1024-123X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1155/2015/313089