<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> Freeway networks reach their limits, since it is usually impossible to increase traffic volumes by indefinitely extending transport infrastructure through adding new traffic lanes. One of the possible solutions is to use advanced intelligent transport systems, particularly ramp metering systems. The paper shows how two particular algorithms of local and traffic-responsive control (Zone, ALINEA) can be adapted to simplified conditions corresponding to Slovak freeways. Both control strategies are modelled and simulated using PTV Vissim software, including the module VisVAP. Presented results demonstrate the properties of both control strategies, which are compared mutually as well as with the initial situation in which no control strategy is applied</p></abstract>

Freeway networks reach their limits, since it is usually impossible to increase traffic volumes by indefinitely extending transport infrastructure through adding new traffic lanes. One of the possible solutions is to use advanced intelligent transport systems, particularly ramp metering systems. The paper shows how two particular algorithms of local and traffic-responsive control (Zone, ALINEA) can be adapted to simplified conditions corresponding to Slovak freeways. Both control strategies are modelled and simulated using PTV Vissim software, including the module VisVAP. Presented results demonstrate the properties of both control strategies, which are compared mutually as well as with the initial situation in which no control strategy is applied

Ramp - Metering Algorithms Evaluated within Simplified Conditions

Civil and Environmental Engineering

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Freeway networks reach their limits, since it is usually impossible to increase traffic volumes by indefinitely extending transport infrastructure through...

Ramp - Metering Algorithms Evaluated within Simplified Conditions

Pubblicato online: 30 nov 2017

Pagine: 112 - 119

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/cee-2017-0015

Parole chiave
Ramp metering, Zone, ALINEA, Algorithm, Simulation

© 2017

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Ramp - Metering Algorithms Evaluated within Simplified Conditions

Pubblicato online: 30 nov 2017

Pagine: 112 - 119

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/cee-2017-0015

Parole chiaveRamp metering, Zone, ALINEA, Algorithm, Simulation

© 2017

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Parole chiave
Ramp metering, Zone, ALINEA, Algorithm, Simulation