Improving the road network performance with dynamic route guidance by considering the indifference band of road users

When applying dynamic route guidance to improve the network performance, it is important to balance the interests of the road authorities and the road users. In this paper we will illustrate how bounded rationality and indifference bands can be taken into account in dynamic route guidance to improve the network performance while respecting the...

Network Wide Service Level-Oriented Route Guidance in Road Traffic Networks: Traffic management in line with the policy objectives of the road authorities

Service level control is a promising strategy to realize policy objectives within road networks like improving network production while taking road user interests, livability and safety into account. In this contribution a service level-oriented route guidance control approach is presented that is able to control service levels of routes on a...

Service level-oriented route guidance during evacuations

Research in the field of evacuation management puts a strong focus on the development of optimal evacuation and control strategies. However, in operational evacuation management the means to monitor, manage, evaluate and control are limited. The authorities nevertheless have a strong need to understand the system, in order to properly guide...

Vehicle-class Specific Route-guidance of Freeway Traffic by Model-predictive Control

Few Active Traffic Management measures proposed in the past consider the distinction of different vehicle classes. Examples of vehicle-class specific measures are truck lanes and high-occupancy/toll (HOT) lanes. We propose that the distinction of different vehicle classes, with different flow characteristics and societal and economic function,...

A Comparison of Freeway Work Zone Capacity Prediction Models

To keep the freeway networks in a good condition, road works such as maintenance and reconstruction are carried out regularly. The resulting work zones including the related traffic management measures, give different traffic capacities of the infrastructures, which determines the travel time for road users. A work zone capacity prediction model...

Efficient particle-based estimation of marginal costs in a first-order macroscopic traffic flow model

Marginal costs in traffic networks are the extra costs incurred to the system as the result of extra traffic. Marginal costs are required frequently e.g. when considering system optimal traffic assignment or tolling problems. When explicitly considering spillback in a traffic flow model, one can use a numerical derivative or resort to heuristics...

Online travel time estimation in urban areas using the occupancy of long loop detectors

Roads in the Netherlands are often heavily congested. Real-time travel time information can be a valuable instrument to reduce the impact of increasing traffic demand on travel time with advantages for traffic participants as well as for the traffic network managers. For urban roads travel time estimation is a more complex problem than for...

The Expected Effectivity of the Dynamic Speed Limit Algorithm SPECIALIST: A Field Data Evaluation Method

Integrated traffic control for mixed urban and freeway networks: A model predictive control approach

Optimal coordination of variable speed limits to suppress shock waves

Model Predictive Control for Integrating Traffic Control Measures

Dynamic traffic control measures, such as ramp metering and dynamic speed limits, can be used to better utilize the available road capacity. Due to the increasing traffic volumes and the increasing number of traffic jams the interaction between the control measures has increased such that local control measures are often not sufficient anymore....

Optimal coordination of variable speed limits to suppress shock waves

Fuzzy Decision Support Systemen: Versie 1.3

Rapport in opdracht van het Ministerie van Verkeer en Waterstaat, Adviesdienst Verkeer en Vervoer (AVV). De toenemende complexiteit van de regeltaak vereist de ontwikkeling van geavanceerde methodes voor het ondersteunen van de beheerstaak van operators in verkeerscentrales. Deze ondersteuning beoogt de operator in staat te stellen, het...