Network Wide Service Level-Oriented Route Guidance in Road Traffic Networks: Traffic management in line with the policy objectives of the road authorities

Network Wide Service Level-Oriented Route Guidance in Road Traffic Networks: Traffic management in line with the policy objectives of the road authorities

Landman, R.L.
Hegyi, A.
Hoogendoorn, S.P.

Civil Engineering and Geosciences

Transport & Planning

2012-12-31

Service level control is a promising strategy to realize policy objectives within road networks like improving network production while taking road user interests, livability and safety into account. In this contribution a service level-oriented route guidance control approach is presented that is able to control service levels of routes on a network scale. By maintaining target service levels network performance degradation is prevented, redundant route capacity fully utilized and road user interests protected. By means of a simulation test case, the performance and functioning of the controller is compared with a Model Predictive Control based route guidance approach that realizes system optimal conditions and a user equilibrium feedback approach that realizes user optimal conditions. The results indicate that both the proposed and Model Predictive Control approach outperform the user equilibrium approach. However, the proposed approach approximates system optimal performance with a significantly lower computational demand and a better scalability with growing network sizes.

service level control
network wide traffic management
traffic management policy
finite-state machine

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Trail Research School

TRAIL Beta-Congress: Mobility and logistics - Science Meets Practice, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 30-31 October 2012

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