Anticipative Model Predictive Control for Ramp Metering in Freeway Networks

Reference

T. Bellemans, B. De Schutter, and B. De Moor, "Anticipative Model Predictive Control for Ramp Metering in Freeway Networks," Proceedings of the 2003 American Control Conference, Denver, Colorado, pp. 4077-4082, June 2003.

Abstract

When implementing ramp metering in the context of freeway networks, traffic can spontaneously re-route due to the applied control actions. Although this re-routing can have an important impact on the resulting traffic situation in the traffic network and on the performance of the traffic network as a whole, re-routing is not automatically included in current model predictive frameworks for freeway traffic control. Therefore, we propose a method to calculate and incorporate the re-routing effects into the model predictive framework. In this way, we realize anticipative model predictive control for ramp metering in freeway networks.

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Bibtex entry

@inproceedings{BelDeS:02-020,
author={T. Bellemans and B. {D}e Schutter and B. {D}e Moor},
title={Anticipative Model Predictive Control for Ramp Metering in Freeway Networks},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2003 American Control Conference},
address={Denver, Colorado},
pages={4077--4082},
month=jun,
year={2003}
}


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