scholarly journals An agile vehicle‐based dynamic user equilibrium scheme for urban traffic signal control

Author(s):  
Wei‐Li Liu ◽  
Yue‐Jiao Gong ◽  
Wei‐Neng Chen ◽  
Jun Zhang ◽  
Zhi Dou
2014 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 5067-5072 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronny Kutadinata ◽  
Will Moase ◽  
Chris Manzie ◽  
Lele Zhang ◽  
Tim Garoni

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 229-236
Author(s):  
Songhang Chen ◽  
Dan Zhang ◽  
Fenghua Zhu

Regional Traffic Signal Control (RTSC) is believed to be a promising approach to alleviate urban traffic congestion. However, the current ecology of RTSC platforms is too closed to meet the needs of urban development, which has also seriously affected their own development. Therefore, the paper proposes virtualizing the traffic signal control devices to create software-defined RTSC systems, which can provide a better innovation platform for coordinated control of urban transportation. The novel architecture for RTSC is presented in detail, and microscopic traffic simulation experiments are designed and conducted to verify the feasibility.


Author(s):  
Isaac K. Isukapati ◽  
Hana Rudová ◽  
Gregory J. Barlow ◽  
Stephen F. Smith

Transit vehicles create special challenges for urban traffic signal control. Signal timing plans are typically designed for the flow of passenger vehicles, but transit vehicles—with frequent stops and uncertain dwell times—may have different flow patterns that fail to match those plans. Transit vehicles stopping on urban streets can also restrict or block other traffic on the road. This situation results in increased overall wait times and delays throughout the system for transit vehicles and other traffic. Transit signal priority (TSP) systems are often used to mitigate some of these issues, primarily by addressing delay to the transit vehicles. However, existing TSP strategies give unconditional priority to transit vehicles, exacerbating quality of service for other modes. In networks for which transit vehicles have significant effects on traffic congestion, particularly urban areas, the use of more-realistic models of transit behavior in adaptive traffic signal control could reduce delay for all modes. Estimating the arrival time of a transit vehicle at an intersection requires an accurate model of dwell times at transit stops. As a first step toward developing a model for predicting bus arrival times, this paper analyzes trends in automatic vehicle location data collected over 2 years and allows several inferences to be drawn about the statistical nature of dwell times, particularly for use in real-time control and TSP. On the basis of this trend analysis, the authors argue that an effective predictive dwell time distribution model must treat independent variables as random or stochastic regressors.


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