Control Strategies for Corridor Management

Zahra Amiri, Yu-Chieh Lo, Alexander Skabardonis and Pravin Varaiya

Institute of Transportation Studies, Research Reports, Working Papers, Proceedings from Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Berkeley

Abstract: Integrated management of travel corridors comprising of freeways and adjacent arterial streets can potentially improve the performance of the highway facilities. However, several research gaps exist in data collection and performance measurement, analysis tools and control strategies. In this project first we analyzed high resolution data consisting of time-stamped records of every event involving vehicles, together with the signal phase at real-world signalized intersections and developed procedures for estimating performance measures. Next, we assessed the performance of a new microscopic simulator for signalized arterials. The model predictions were in close agreement with the predictions from widely used models in practice. We also developed and applied control strategies for freeway-arterial coordinated control to avoid queue override and developed a methodology to provide estimates of the amount and impacts of freeway diverted traffic in case of no-recurrent (incident related) congestion.

Keywords: Engineering; Traffic signals; mathematical models; freeway control; simulation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-06-28
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