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Predictive–Tentative Transit Signal Priority with Self-Organizing Traffic Signal Control

Accession Number:

01595107

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Order URL: http://worldcat.org/isbn/9780309369909

Abstract:

Reducing bus delay beyond what can be achieved with conventional transit signal priority requires making and responding to longer-range predictions of bus arrival time, which include dwell time at an upstream stop. At the same time, priority decisions based on such uncertain predictions should be reversible if the dwell time should be much longer than expected. Rules for applying these concepts are proposed for application in the framework of self-organizing traffic signal control developed by authors Cesme and Furth. Predicted arrival time is based on a calculation of expected remaining dwell time and is compared with the earliest time the bus phase can be expected to return to green. One possible decision is to expedite return to green so that secondary extensions (a feature of self-organizing control logic) are inhibited. The other is to hold the green; however, this decision can be reversed if updated predictions of expected remaining dwell time indicate that the bus will arrive after the maximum green extension has expired. Simulation tests on a corridor with nine signalized intersections showed a 75% reduction in bus delay, to only 5 s per intersection, with only a 3% increase in general traffic delay.

Monograph Accession #:

01610396

Report/Paper Numbers:

16-4163

Language:

English

Authors:

Moghimidarzi, SayedBahman
Furth, Peter G
Cesme, Burak

ORCID 0000-0002-1265-981X

Pagination:

pp 77–85

Publication Date:

2016

Serial:

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board

Issue Number: 2557
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
ISSN: 0361-1981

ISBN:

9780309369909

Media Type:

Print

Features:

Figures (3) ; Maps; References (15) ; Tables (4)

Subject Areas:

Operations and Traffic Management; Public Transportation; Safety and Human Factors

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Jan 12 2016 5:50PM

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