Reference:
S.K. Zegeye,
B. De Schutter,
J. Hellendoorn, and
E.A. Breunesse,
"Variable speed limits for green mobility," Proceedings of the
14th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation
Systems (ITSC 2011), Washington, DC, pp. 2174-2179, Oct. 2011.
Abstract:
Due to increasing environmental concerns the focus of traffic
management and control is shifting towards optimizing the traffic
control measures to also reduce traffic emissions and fuel
consumption. In this context we propose a model-based predictive
traffic control approach for the balanced reduction of travel times,
emissions, and fuel consumption for freeway networks, where not only
the local emissions are taken into account but also the dispersion of
the emissions to various target zones near the freeways. The core of
the approach is a new efficient model for describing the area-wide
dispersion of the emissions that is much faster than the models we
have proposed in earlier papers. We present a detailed description of
the new so-called expanding grid-based model and we embed it in a
model-based predictive traffic control approach using variable speed
limits.