Title :
How ramp metering system impacts merging traffics
Author :
Wu, Jianping ; McDonald, Mike ; Chatterjee, Kiron
Author_Institution :
Transp. Syst. Group, Southampton Univ., UK
Abstract :
This paper reports a case study of a ramp metering system (using ALINEA control strategy) in the southeast of the UK. The specific feature of this study is that it investigated the impact of ramp metering on the detailed driving behaviour of motorists. The results reported in this paper focus on the impacts of ramp metering on the merging vehicles from slip road.
Keywords :
metering; road traffic; traffic control; ALINEA control strategy; UK; driving behaviour; gap acceptance; motorist behaviour; ramp metering system; slip road; traffic merging; Area measurement; Control systems; Coordinate measuring machines; Merging; North America; Road accidents; Road vehicles; Throughput; Traffic control; Transportation;
Conference_Titel :
Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2003. Proceedings. 2003 IEEE
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8125-4
DOI :
10.1109/ITSC.2003.1252649
