Nonlinear Control of Stop-and-Go Traffic

R. Sollacher and H. Lenz
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R. Sollacher: Information and Communications, Siemens AG, Corporate Technology
H. Lenz: Information and Communications, Siemens AG, Corporate Technology

A chapter in Traffic and Granular Flow ’99, 2000, pp 315-320 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract In highway traffic one observes metastabiltiy in a certain range of the traffic density. Perturbations of a large enough amplitude develop into jams or stop-andgo waves. Observations and simulations indicate that the latter behave like solitary waves. Current traffic control systems based on varying speed limits cannot always prevent the creation of stop-and-go waves nor can they damp them. We have designed a nonlinear controller which is able to extinguish stop-and-go waves; its performance is demonstrated within simulations using a realistic traffic model. The construction is based on a transformation to a coordinate system moving with the propagation speed of the stop-and-go waves.

Keywords: Solitary Wave; Traffic Flow; Nonlinear Control; Speed Limit; Highway Traffic (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-59751-0_28

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