A New Emission Model Including On-Ramps for Two-Class Freeway Traffic Control

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C. Pasquale, S. Liu, S. Siri, S. Sacone, and B. De Schutter, "A new emission model including on-ramps for two-class freeway traffic control," Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE 18th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, pp. 1143-1149, Sept. 2015.

Abstract

The main objective of this paper is to propose a new two-class macroscopic emission model to describe the pollutant emissions produced by freeway traffic. The innovative aspect of the proposed model consists in considering the on-ramp emissions, which are explicitly modeled for different traffic scenarios. Next, a two-class local controller based on a ramp metering is reported with the aim of minimizing emissions and congestion in the freeway system. The relevance of the on-ramp emission model is in this way highlighted, since ramp metering may lead to creation of queues at the entering on-ramps and hence a concentration of pollutants on these on-ramps. Simulation results show the effectiveness of the proposed control strategy for a case of study.

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@inproceedings{PasLiu:15-029,
   author    = {Pasquale, Cecilia and Liu, Shuai and Siri, Silvia and Sacone,
                Simona and De Schutter, Bart},
   title     = {A New Emission Model Including On-Ramps for Two-Class Freeway
                Traffic Control},
   booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE 18th International Conference on
                Intelligent Transportation Systems},
   address   = {Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain},
   pages     = {1143--1149},
   month     = sep,
   year      = {2015}
   }


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