Traffic flow control system in urban road networks

Author

Shimizu, Hikaru ; Kobayashi, Masa-Aki ; Ishikawa, Hiroshi ; Fuji, Haruko

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. Process. Eng., Fukuyama Univ., Japan

Volume

3

fYear

2004

fDate

25-28 July 2004

Abstract

This paper studies a design of traffic flow control system in urban road networks. The signal control system of the congestion length is described by a nonlinear time-varying discrete dynamic system and synthesized by using the feedback control. A signal control algorithm in which the three signal control parameters consisting of the cycle length, green split and offset are searched systematically so as to minimize the sum of congestion lengths in the urban road network is presented. The dynamic route guidance system is consisted of both the evaluation for the mean OD travel time and the recommendable route search algorithm. The traffic flow control system, which is most effective to reduce the congestion lengths in urban road networks, is designed by connecting the signal control system with the dynamic route guidance system in real time.

Keywords

control system synthesis; discrete time systems; feedback; nonlinear control systems; nonlinear dynamical systems; road traffic; search problems; time-varying systems; traffic control; congestion length reduction; control system synthesis; dynamic route guidance system; feedback control; nonlinear time varying discrete dynamic system; origin destination travel time; recommendable route search algorithm; signal control algorithm; signal control system; traffic flow control system; urban road networks; Communication system traffic control; Control system synthesis; Control systems; Feedback control; Network synthesis; Nonlinear control systems; Nonlinear dynamical systems; Roads; Signal synthesis; Time varying systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Circuits and Systems, 2004. MWSCAS '04. The 2004 47th Midwest Symposium on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8346-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWSCAS.2004.1354313

Filename

1354313