Reference
S. Liu, B. De Schutter, and H. Hellendoorn, "Integrated traffic flow and
emission control based on FASTLANE and the multi-class VT-macro model,"
Proceedings of the 2014 European Control Conference,
Strasbourg, France, pp. 2908-2913, June 2014.
Abstract
The main goal of this paper is to develop a multi-class traffic flow and
emission model that is suited for on-line model-based control. Multi-class
traffic flow and emission models take into account the heterogeneous nature of
traffic networks. In comparison with single-class models, these models are more
accurate. Using more accurate model results in better description of the
traffic network. However, this also leads to lower a computation speed when the
model is used for on-line model-based control. FASTLANE is a first-order
multi-class traffic flow model that is faster than more accurate models (such
as METANET). However, FASTLANE does not yet describe emission and fuel
consumption. Therefore, we propose to integrate FASTLANE with the VT-macro
emission model. This results in a combined FASTLANE and multi-class VT-macro
model that describes multi-class traffic flows and emissions and that yields a
balanced trade-off between the accuracy and the computation speed. On-line
model predictive control is used to obtain a balanced optimization of the total
time spent and the total emissions. A case study is implemented to validate the
efficiency of the new integrated FASTLANE and multi-class VT-macro model. The
simulation results indicate that considering the heterogeneous nature of
multi-class traffic leads to a better control performance than single-class
models.
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BibTeX
@inproceedings{LiuDeS:14-030,
author = {Liu, Shuai and De Schutter, Bart and Hellendoorn, Hans},
title = {Integrated Traffic Flow and Emission Control Based on
{FASTLANE} and the Multi-Class {VT}-Macro Model},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2014 European Control Conference},
address = {Strasbourg, France},
pages = {2908--2913},
month = jun,
year = {2014}
}