@article{ref1,
title="City-wide traffic control: modeling impacts of cordon queues",
journal="Transportation research part C: emerging technologies",
year="2020",
author="Ni, Wei and Cassidy, Michael",
volume="113",
number="",
pages="164-175",
abstract="Optimal cordon-metering rates are obtained using Macroscopic Fundamental Diagrams in combination with flow conservation laws. A model-predictive control algorithm is also used so that time-varying metering rates are generated based on their forecasted impacts. Our scalable algorithm can do this for an arbitrary number of cordoned neighborhoods within a city. Unlike its predecessors, the proposed model accounts for the time-varying constraining effects that cordon queues impose on a neighborhood's circulating traffic, as those queues expand and recede over time. The model does so at every time step by approximating a neighborhood's street space occupied by cordon queues, and re-scaling the MFD to describe the state of circulating traffic that results. The model also differentiates between saturated and under-saturated cordon-metering operations. Computer simulations of an idealized network show that these enhancements can substantially improve the predictions of both, the trip completion rates in a neighborhood and the rates that vehicles cross metered cordons. Optimal metering policies generated as a result are similarly shown to do a better job in reducing the Vehicle Hours Traveled on the network. The VHT reductions stemming from the proposed model and from its predecessors differed by as much as 14%.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0968-090X",
doi="10.1016/j.trc.2019.04.024",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2019.04.024"
}