Reference
S. K. Zegeye, B. De Schutter, H.
Hellendoorn, and E. Breunesse, "Reduction of travel times and traffic emissions
using model predictive control,"
Proceedings of the 2009
American Control Conference, St. Louis, Missouri, pp. 5392-5397, June
2009.
Abstract
In this paper we present a model-based traffic flow control approach to improve
both traffic flow and emissions in a traffic network. A model predictive
control (MPC) is implemented using a microscopic car-following traffic flow
model and an average-speed-based emission model. We consider reduction of total
time spent (TTS) and total emissions (TE) as performance measures of the
control strategy. Moreover, with the help of simulations we illustrate that a
traffic control strategy, particularly an MPC strategy, aiming at the reduction
of the TTS does not necessarily reduce the level of emissions. In particular,
when the traffic flow is congested, we demonstrate that a traffic control
strategy that addresses TTS (or improvement of the traffic flow) alone can
cause an increment in the level of emissions and vice versa. Therefore, in this
paper we explain how to integrate both requirements so that a balanced
trade-off is obtained.
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BibTeX
@inproceedings{ZegDeS:09-004,
author = {Zegeye, Solomon Kidane and De Schutter, Bart and Hellendoorn,
Hans and Breunesse, Ewald},
title = {Reduction of Travel Times and Traffic Emissions Using Model
Predictive Control},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2009 American Control Conference},
address = {St.\ Louis, Missouri},
pages = {5392--5397},
month = jun,
year = {2009}
}