INTEGRATED CONTROL OF TRAFFIC CORRIDORS

INTEGRATED CONTROL OF
TRAFFIC CORRIDORS

M. Papageorgiou¹, H. Haj-Salem², N.Ellumi², J. Chrisoulakis³, F. Middelham⁴

^{1Technical University of Crete,
GR-73100 Chania, Greece

²INRETS, 2 av.du Gl.Malleret-Joinville, F-94114 Arcueil, France

³TRUTH, 80 Voulgaroktonou Str, GR-11473 Athens, Greece

⁴RWS-AVV/DIR-NH, Boompjes 200, 3011 XD Rotterdam,The Netherlands}

ABSTRACT

The paper outlines a unified approach to the design of integrated control strategies for traffic controls of arbitrary topology including both motorways and signal controlled urban roads. This approach leads to the formulation of a linear optimal control problem involving a number of possible control actions, such as ramp metering, signal control, motorway to motorway control, route guidance, and VMS control. The control objective in minimization of a common criterion, such as the total delay in the network.