A new emission model including on-ramps for two-class freeway traffic control

Reference:
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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Bibtex entry:

@inproceedings{PasLiu:15-029,
        author={C. Pasquale and S. Liu and S. Siri and S. Sacone and B. {D}e Schutter},
        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},
        doi={10.1109/ITSC.2015.189}
        }

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