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
5.2.2. INPUT PARAMETERS AND DATA
5.2.3. CONTROL CONSTRAINTS

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
5.3.2. SELECTION OF DESIRED DENSITIES
5.3.3. DOWNSTREAM DENSITY CONSTRAINT SELECTION
5.3.4. TESTS WITHOUT EXCESSIVE QUEUE OVERRIDES
5.3.5. TESTS WITH EXCESSIVE QUEUE OVERRIDES

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