Reference
M. van den Berg, A. Hegyi, B. De Schutter, and J. Hellendoorn, "Influencing
long-term route choice by traffic control measures - A model study,"
Proceedings of the 17th IFAC World Congress, Seoul, Korea,
pp. 13052-13057, July 2008.
Abstract
Currently used traffic control measures, such as traffic signals, variable
speed limits, ramp metering installations etc., are often not designed to
influence the route choice of drivers. However, traffic control measures do
influence the travel times that are experienced in the network. Since route
choice is, at least for a part, based on experienced travel times, the control
measures thus also influence the long-term route choice. This influence can be
seen as a side-effect of the control measures, but in this paper we will
investigate the possibilities to explicitly and actively use the influence of
the traffic control measures to change the long-term route choice. Using basic
traffic flow and route choice models we investigate how outflow and speed limit
control can affect the final equilibrium turning fractions. As an example we
consider a case study for a simple network with two routes and use a simple
linear outflow controller, which makes the analytical investigation of the
effects of the controller possible, but the results can be extended to more
sophisticated control methods.
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@inproceedings{vanHeg:07-032,
author = {van den Berg, Monique and Hegyi, Andreas and De Schutter, Bart
and Hellendoorn, Johannes},
title = {Influencing Long-Term Route Choice by Traffic Control Measures
-- {A} Model Study},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 17th IFAC World Congress},
address = {Seoul, Korea},
pages = {13052--13057},
month = jul,
year = {2008}
}