Anticipative ramp metering control using dynamic traffic assignment

Reference:
M. van den Berg, T. Bellemans, B. De Schutter, B. De Moor, and J. Hellendoorn, "Anticipative ramp metering control using dynamic traffic assignment," Proceedings of the 7th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC 2004), Washington, DC, pp. 503-508, Oct. 2004.

Abstract:
We develop an anticipative model-based traffic control approach for ramp metering in freeway networks. If ramp metering is implemented in a freeway network with alternative routes, traffic can spontaneously re-route due to the response of the drivers to the applied control actions. Although spontaneous re-routing can have a significant influence on the resulting traffic situation in the traffic network and on the performance of the traffic network as a whole, re-routing is usually not automatically included in current freeway traffic control frameworks. In this paper, we develop a new method to efficiently calculate and incorporate re-routing effects into a model-based predictive traffic control framework. In this way, anticipative model predictive control for ramp metering in freeway networks is realized.