Reference
S. K. Zegeye, B. De Schutter, J.
Hellendoorn, and
E. A. Breunesse,
"Reduction of area-wide emissions using an efficient model-based traffic
control strategy,"
Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE Forum on
Integrated and Sustainable Transportation Systems (FISTS 2011), Vienna,
Austria, pp. 307-312, June-July 2011.
Abstract
In addition to the challenge to reduce traffic jams, reduction of traffic
emissions in such a way that the dispersion of the emissions to residential
areas, hospitals, schools, and other neighborhoods is decreased is a problem
that requires state-of-the-art traffic control and management solutions. In
this paper we model the dispersion of the emissions from a freeway traffic
using a grid-based approach where the variability of the speed and direction
wind is considered into account. The model is developed in such a way that the
computation time is less than a previously proposed point-source model, while
still capturing the important dispersion dynamics so that it can be used for
on-line control applications. In order to reduce the dispersion of emissions to
a neighborhood we design a parametrized model predictive control (MPC) strategy
to optimize variable speed limits and ramp metering rates. We illustrate the
proposed dispersion model and control approach with a simulation-based case
study.
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BibTeX
@inproceedings{ZegDeS:11-026,
author = {Zegeye, Solomon Kidane and De Schutter, Bart and Hellendoorn,
Johannes and Breunesse, Ewald A.},
title = {Reduction of Area-Wide Emissions Using an Efficient Model-Based
Traffic Control Strategy},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE Forum on Integrated and
Sustainable Transportation Systems (FISTS 2011)},
address = {Vienna, Austria},
pages = {307--312},
month = jun # {--} # jul,
year = {2011}
}