Print Email Facebook Twitter Efficient optimization methods for freeway management and control Title Efficient optimization methods for freeway management and control Author Cong, Z. Contributor De Schutter, B. (promotor) Babuska, R. (promotor) Faculty Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering Department Delft Center for Systems and Control Date 2015-11-30 Abstract Due to the rapid growth of human population, and jobs being distributed unevenly in different locations, daily commuting is required more than ever, which in its turn is creating a huge socio-economic issue: traffic congestion. In order to prevent, or at least to alleviate this problem, trafficmanagement and control is urgently required. This thesis develops three different management and control methods to improve the performance of traffic networks, with a particular focus on freeway networks, namely ant colony optimization for dynamic traffic routing; co-design of network topology and controlmeasures; path planning of unmanned aerial vehicles for monitoring traffic networks. Usually, solving these problems for a large-scale freeway network will result in an extremely high computational burden. The main contribution of this thesis consists in the development of solution methods for these problems to solve them efficiently with a well-balanced trade-off between performance and computation speed. Subject freeway networksoptimizationdynamic traffic routingco-design of topology and controlmeasuresUAV path planning To reference this document use: https://doi.org/10.4233/uuid:5b73c483-bca3-4cad-8794-6e02a353baf3 ISBN 9789055841974 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type doctoral thesis Rights (c) 2015 Cong, Z. Files PDF thesis_final.pdf 1.51 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:5b73c483-bca3-4cad-8794-6e02a353baf3/datastream/OBJ/view