Print Email Facebook Twitter Rule based control for merges: assessment and case study Title Rule based control for merges: assessment and case study Author Nagalur Subraveti, H.H.S. (TU Delft Transport and Planning) Knoop, V.L. (TU Delft Transport and Planning) van Arem, B. (TU Delft Transport and Planning) Date 2019 Abstract Merging areas are a common bottleneck source on motorways. In order to tackle congestion at these locations, efficient traffic management and control is vital to best utilize the available space. However, before the application of any traffic control measures, a thorough analysis of the effectiveness of the designed control action needs to be evaluated. The paper presents insights for the assessment of rule based traffic control at motorway merges. The methodology is then applied to a case study wherein an advisory system using rule based control for motorway merges considering mixed traffic is evaluated. With the aim to reduce travel times at merging sections, advices from the control system influencing the longitudinal behavior of mainline vehicles were generated. The advisory system was tested in a microsimulation tool for various penetration rates of controlled vehicles on the mainline. The effect of implementing the control action, side-effects of the design, risks involved and the overall role in improving or deteriorating the merging situation are then discussed. This can hence help in further developing any rule based control systems at motorway merges. To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:92925330-2013-45fa-858d-4c5f228cd76e DOI https://doi.org/10.1109/ITSC.2018.8569221 Publisher IEEE Embargo date 2019-05-07 ISBN 9781728103235 Source 2018 IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference, ITSC 2018: November 4-7, 2018, Maui, Hawaii, USA, 2018-November Event 21st IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, ITSC 2018, 2018-11-04 → 2018-11-07, Maui, United States Bibliographical note Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public. Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights © 2019 H.H.S. Nagalur Subraveti, V.L. Knoop, B. van Arem Files PDF 0244.pdf 588.62 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:92925330-2013-45fa-858d-4c5f228cd76e/datastream/OBJ/view