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Antonella Ferrara

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In this paper, we propose the METANET with service station (METANET-s) model, a second-order macro-scopic traffic model that, compared to the classical METANET, incorporates the dynamics of service stations on highways. Specifically, we employ the (so-called) store-and-forward li ...
To achieve optimal robot behavior in dynamic scenarios we need to consider complex dynamics in a predictive manner. In the vehicle dynamics community, it is well know that to achieve time-optimal driving on low friction surface, the vehicle should utilize drifting. Hence, many au ...

A novel bi-level temporally-distributed MPC approach

An application to green urban mobility

Model predictive control (MPC) has been widely used for traffic management, such as for minimizing the total time spent or the total emissions of vehicles. When long-term green urban mobility is considered including e.g. a constraint on the total yearly emissions, the optimizatio ...
This paper studies the capacity drops phenomena on a macroscopic, first-order model for freeway traffic. In particular, we focus on the effect that a Service Station (ST) has on the mainstream traffic evolution. We propose a modified formulation of the Cell Transmission Model wit ...
This paper analyzes how the presence of service stations on highways affects traffic congestion. We focus on the problem of optimally designing a service station to achieve beneficial effects in terms of total traffic congestion and peak traffic reduction. We propose a genetic al ...
In this paper, we propose a novel model that describes how the traffic evolution on a highway stretch is affected by the presence of a service station. The presented model enhances the classical Cell Transmission Model (CTM) dynamics by adding the dynamics associated with the ser ...
This Special Section contains review papers covering the topics of the 15th IFAC Symposium on Control in Transportation Systems (IFAC CTS 2018), held in Savona, Italy on June 6–8, 2018. After a brief introduction on the Special Session aim, the papers in this section are briefly ...