Inter-urban traffic management on highways - Simulation of traffic control measures effects

Author

Timnea, Radu Serban ; Stan, Valentin Alexandra ; Gheorghiu, Razvan Andrei

Author_Institution

Electron. Dept., “Politeh.” Univ. of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania

fYear

2014

Firstpage

85

Lastpage

90

Abstract

This paper presents considerations regarding the benefits obtained by implementing traffic control measures on an inter-urban road network. The considerations are based on the results obtained by simulating traffic scenarios on a model road network. These scenarios involve: heavy traffic, over-capacity of the network; medium traffic, under-capacity of the network, but involving an incident. The results obtained are compared with a normal traffic scenario, under the road network capacity and in the absence of any incident. The traffic control measures analysed regarding their results are: ramp metering, variable speed limit, driver information through variable message signs.

Keywords

road traffic control; driver information; heavy traffic; highways; interurban road network capacity; interurban traffic management; medium traffic; network over-capacity; network under-capacity; normal traffic scenario; ramp metering; traffic control measure effects; traffic scenario simulation; variable message signs; variable speed limit; Delays; Jamming; Junctions; Roads; Traffic control; Vehicles; incident management; inter-urban traffic; ramp metering; simulation; traffic management; traffic parameters; variable speed limit;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electronics, Computers and Artificial Intelligence (ECAI), 2014 6th International Conference on

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-5478-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ECAI.2014.7090186

Filename

7090186