Reference
S. K. Zegeye, B. De Schutter, J.
Hellendoorn, and
E. A. Breunesse,
"Variable speed limits for area-wide reduction of emissions,"
Proceedings of the 13th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent
Transportation Systems (ITSC 2010), Madeira Island, Portugal, pp.
507-512, Sept. 2010.
Abstract
Although traffic congestion is a pressing problem that drivers face every day,
improving the traffic flow does not always create a healthy environment to the
people residing in the neighborhood of the freeway. Improved traffic flow
neither means efficient fuel consumption of the vehicles. Moreover, reduction
of total emissions or travel times in a traffic network does not always
guarantee reduction in the area-wide emission levels, because there are many
other factors that affect the area-wide emissions. In particular, the direction
and speed of wind are important factors that play a significant role in the
area-wide emission levels. Therefore, in this paper, we systematically model
the effect of wind on the area-wide emission levels and design a model-based
traffic controller to reduce the dispersion of emissions. More specifically, a
model predictive control (MPC) is used to integrate various variable speed
limits in order to provide a balanced trade-off between the area-wide emissions
and the travel times. Furthermore, we present a case study to demonstrate the
proposed control approach.
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BibTeX
@inproceedings{ZegDeS:10-049,
author = {Zegeye, Solomon Kidane and De Schutter, Bart and Hellendoorn,
Johannes and Breunesse, Ewald A.},
title = {Variable Speed Limits for Area-Wide Reduction of Emissions},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 13th International IEEE Conference on
Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC 2010)},
address = {Madeira Island, Portugal},
pages = {507--512},
month = sep,
year = {2010}
}