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Urban and interurban motorways were originally conceived so as to provide virtually unlimited mobility to road users. The on-going dramatic expansion of car ownership, however, has led to the daily appearance of recurrent and non-recurrent motorway congestions of thousands of kilometers in length around the world. It has been recently realized that the mere infrastructure expansion cannot provide a complete solution to these problems due to economic and environmental reasons or, in metropolitan areas, simply due to lack of space. What is urgently needed is to restore and maintain the full utilization of the motorway capacity along with an orderly and balanced satisfaction of the occurring demand. Clearly, the passage from chaotic to optimal traffic conditions is only possible if today’s “spontaneous” use of the motorway infrastructure is replaced by suitable surveillance and control measures aiming at the benefit of all users. Examples of such suitable measures are motorway surveillance, ramp metering, real-time driver information, route guidance and speed control via variable message signs. The implementation of such measures worldwide would lead to improvements of the traffic conditions with very positive social, economic and environmental implications. The Dynamic Systems and Simulation Laboratory (DSSL) of the Technical University of Crete in Greece has been active at an international level over the last decade in the field of Motorway Traffic Modeling, Simulation, Surveillance and Control (MTMSSC), and was directly involved in the development and implementation of MTMSSC methodologies and tools in many different traffic networks worldwide. The purpose of this article is to briefly outline the MTMSSC methodologies and tools developed or under development by the researchers of the DSSL along with some selected application results for specific motorway traffic networks.

01033979

English

26p

2006

1st International Symposium on Freeway and Tollway Operations

DVD

Figures (7) ; References (24) ; Tables (1)

Highway traffic control; Technological innovations; Traffic congestion; Traffic models; Traffic simulation; Traffic surveillance

Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; I73: Traffic Control

TRIS, TRB

Mar 19 2009 8:49AM

• A Simulation-Based Assessment of Space-Constrained Toll Plaza Design: A Case Study in the Submerged Artery of Thessaloniki, Greece
• An Artificial Neural Network Model for Evaluating Workers' Performance at Tollbooths
• Analysis of Benefits and Costs from Ramp Metering Implementation
• Dynamic Traffic Assignment Applications for Incident Management
• Motorway Travel Time Estimation by Switching Algorithms and Its Assessment Using Toll Data
• Serbian Pay Toll System Integration in ITS
• Travel Time Information via VMS in Athens