SPERT

A speed limit strategy for recurrent traffic jams

Journal article (2019)

Authors

J.R. Dominguez Frejo Team Bart De Schutter - Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering
B.H.K. De Schutter Team Bart De Schutter - Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering
Research Group
Team Bart De Schutter (Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering) (TU Delft)
Cost function Shock waves Mathematical model Traffic control Predictive models Computational modeling Freeway traffic control Optimal control. Variable speed limits (VSLs)
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Published Date

2019

Language

English

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Faculty

Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering

Department

Delft Center for Systems and Control

Research Group

Team Bart De Schutter

Abstract

This paper proposes and simulates a speed limit controller for recurrent traffic jams (SPERT). SPERT is a simple yet efficient variable speed limit (VSL) control strategy based on the behavior of the optimal controller without any need for online optimization. The online implementation of SPERT is a simple rule-based controller that activates and deactivates the corresponding variable speed limit when the densities of the dominant bottlenecks (which are found offline) reach predefined thresholds. These thresholds are defined in order to activate and deactivate the speed limits at the same bottleneck density at which they would be activated or deactivated in the nominal case. The simulation results show that SPERT is able to approach the optimal behavior while eliminating online computational cost, increasing robustness, and outperforming previously proposed easy-to-implement VSL control algorithms.

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