Citation

Portilla C, Valencia F, Espinosa J, Nunez A, De Schutter B. Transp. Res. C Emerg. Technol. 2016; 70: 27-41.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.trc.2015.11.016

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

In this paper, a model predictive control approach for improving the efficiency of bicycling as part of intermodal transportation systems is proposed. Considering a dedicated bicycle lanes infrastructure, the focus in this paper is to optimize the dynamic interaction between bicycles and vehicles at the multimodal urban traffic intersections. In the proposed approach, a dynamic model for the flows, queues, and number of both vehicles and bicycles is explicitly incorporated in the controller. For obtaining a good trade-off between the total time spent by the cyclists and by the drivers, a Pareto analysis is proposed to adjust the objective function of the MPC controller. Simulation results for a two-intersections urban traffic network are presented and the controller is analyzed considering different methods of including in the MPC controller the inflow demands of both vehicles and bicycles.

Language: en