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Title:

A Rolling Horizon Approach for Route Guidance in Large-Scale Networks

Accession Number:

01556996

Record Type:

Component

Availability:

Transportation Research Board Business Office

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Abstract:

Recent studies have demonstrated that Macroscopic Fundamental Diagram (MFD), which provides an aggregated model of urban traffic dynamics linking network outflow and density, offers a new generation of real-time coordinated traffic management strategies to improve network performance. However, the effect of route choice behavior on MFD modeling and control in case of heterogeneous urban networks, where different parts of the city are subject to different types of control, is still unexplored. This paper advances in this direction by introducing two MFD-based traffic models with different levels of vehicle accumulation state and route choice behavior aggregation. This configuration enables to integrate limited traffic state observability and scrutinize implications of drivers route choice in performance of control strategies. The paper investigates the user equilibrium and system optimum traffic conditions in a multi-subregion network, where the traffic modeling is based on MFD. In the aggregated route choice framework drivers are allowed to cross regions of the city multiple times, which was a constraint in previous models. In addition, a route guidance advisory control system is proposed as a large-scale traffic management strategy. The results show that the route guidance system reduces the total urban delay by 10.6%, while the maximum improvement in case of system optimum condition is 13.6%.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AHB45 Traffic Flow Theory and Characteristics.

Monograph Accession #:

01550057

Report/Paper Numbers:

15-2073

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Yildirimoglu, Mehmet
Ramezani, Mohsen
Geroliminis, Nikolas

Pagination:

19p

Publication Date:

2015

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 94th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2015-1-11 to 2015-1-15
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; References

Uncontrolled Terms:

Fundamental diagram; Rolling horizon

Subject Areas:

Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning; I73: Traffic Control

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2015 Paper #15-2073

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Dec 30 2014 12:44PM