Model Predictive Traffic Control Based on a New Multi-Class METANET Model

Reference

S. Liu, B. De Schutter, and H. Hellendoorn, "Model Predictive Traffic Control Based on a New Multi-Class METANET Model," Proceedings of the 19th IFAC World Congress, Cape Town, South Africa, pp. 8781-8786, Aug. 2014.

Abstract

Multi-class traffic flow models account for the heterogeneous characteristics of traffic networks. This leads to higher accuracy when applying them for on-line model-based control. We propose a new multi-class METANET model. The proposed model is an extension of the single-class macroscopic traffic flow model METANET. In the new model, each vehicle class is subject to its own single-class fundamental diagram, and is limited within an assigned space. In this paper, model predictive control is used for on-line traffic control based on the newly proposed model. A case study is implemented for illustrating the efficiency of the new multi-class model. More specifically, the simulation results show that the new multi-class METANET model leads to a better performance than single-class METANET model.

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Bibtex entry

@inproceedings{LiuDeS:14-020,
author={S. Liu and B. {D}e Schutter and H. Hellendoorn},
title={Model Predictive Traffic Control Based on a New Multi-Class {METANET} Model},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 19th IFAC World Congress},
address={Cape Town, South Africa},
pages={8781--8786},
month=aug,
year={2014},
doi={10.3182/20140824-6-ZA-1003.00893}
}

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