DYNAMIC SYSTEMS AND SIMULATION
LABORATORY
Department of Production Engineering & Management
Technical University of Crete
DESIGN AND SIMULATION TEST OF
COORDINATED RAMP METERING CONTROL (METALINE)
FOR A10-WEST IN AMSTERDAM
by
CHRISTINA DIAKAKI and MARKOS PAPAGEORGIOU
INTERNAL REPORT No: 1994-2
Chania, Greece
August 1994
CONTENTS
1. INTRODUCTION
2. DESCRIPTION OF THE A10-WEST IN AMSTERDAM
2.1. GEOMETRICAL
DATA
2.2. MEASUREMENT INFORMATION
3. LQI APPROACH
4. LQI APPROACH APPLICATION TO A10-WEST IN AMSTERDAM
5. SIMULATION TESTS
5.1. INTRODUCTION TO
THE USED SIMULATION PROGRAM
5.2. APPLICATION OF METANET TO THE A10-WEST
5.2.1. MODELLING OF THE A10-WEST
5.2.3.1. Downstream Density Boundary For Starting Control
5.2.3.2. Range of Permissible On-ramp Volumes
5.2.3.3. Excessive Queue Override
5.3. SIMULATION RESULTS
5.3.1. SELECTION OF WEIGHTING MATRIX R
6. IMPLEMENTATION MATTERS
7. CONCLUSIONS
REFERENCES
APPENDICES
APPENDIX A: Matrices
Augmented System, Weighting, and Design Matrices for the Selected LQI-Controller
Gain Matrices for the Different Weighting Matrices R Investigated
APPENDIX B: Diagrams