Multi-Level and Learning-Based Model Predictive Control for Traffic Management

This thesis focuses on management and control of traffic networks, including urban networks and freeway networks, in which we aim to reduce traffic congestion by minimizing the total time spent of all the vehicles in the network, and also consider green mobility by minimizing the total emissions produced by the vehicles. In this thesis, we have...

Urban Air Traffic Management For Collision Avoidance with Non-Cooperative Airspace Users

With the rise of new and innovative Urban Air Mobility solutions, there also arises a need to integrate these into the existing airspace. Current airspace users include conventional civil, commercial and general aviation, military air users, police and emergency services as well as a plethora of avian life. Planned additions to the airspace are...

SmartRoads 2.0

ScenWise is an innovative company that specializes in data science revolving around traffic management. ScenWise strives to use the newest and best technologies and practices when it comes to web applications, data science and traffic management. The reason for this is that they provide tools to analyse and visualise a variety of situations that...

Traffic management at large-scale events: Design and evaluation of a controller providing route and departure time advice to individual visitors

At large-scale events, the large inflow of visitors travelling by car often causes queues on the roads in the direct surroundings of the event. These queues can spill back to the main road network, where through traffic is driving as well: this through traffic will be hindered by the congestion, while those travellers don’t have the event venue...

Design of a flexible ICT architecture for the integration of Floating Car Data in Rijkswaterstaat’s Traffic Management and Information Systems: A design science research approach

In the last years, Floating Car Data (FCD) has risen as a technology that has the potential to replace legacy sensors, reduce associated installation and maintenance costs and offer new possibilities in the field of traffic management. FCD refers to the use of sources such as in-vehicle systems with network connectivity or road users’ mobile...

Traffic Flow at Sags: Theory, Modeling and Control

Sag vertical curves (sags) are roadway sections along which the gradient increases gradually in the direction of traffic. Empirical observations show that, on freeways, traffic congestion often occurs at sags; actually, in some countries (e.g., Japan), sags are one of the most common types of freeway bottleneck. This thesis is the outcome of a...