DYNAMIC SYSTEMS AND SIMULATION
LABORATORY

Department of Production Engineering & Management

Technical University of Crete

 

DESIGN AND SIMULATION TEST OF
INTEGRATED CORRIDOR CONTROL FOR M8 EASTBOUND CORRIDOR IN GLASGOW

by

CHRISTINA DIAKAKI and MARKOS PAPAGEORGIOU

INTERNAL REPORT No: 1995-3

Chania, Greece
April 1995

CONTENTS

1. INTRODUCTION

2. DESCRIPTION OF M8 EASTBOUND CORRIDOR (M8EC) IN GLASGOW

2.1. TOPOLOGY AND CONTROL MEASURES
2.2. AVAILABLE TRAFFIC DATA

3. MODELLING M8EC FOR SIMULATION

3.1. METACOR: A MACROSCOPIC MODELLING TOOL FOR SIMULATING TRAFFIC FLOW IN CORRIDOR NETWORKS

3.1.1. GENERAL
3.1.2. NETWORK REPRESENTATION
3.1.3. INPUT DATA
3.1.4. TRAFFIC VARIABLES
3.1.5. PERFORMANCE CRITERIA

3.2. MODELLING CORRIDOR M8EC UNDER METACOR’S SPECIFICATIONS

4. CONTROL STRATEGIES

4.1. ALINEA: AN ISOLATED TRAFFIC RESPONSIVE RAMP-METERING STRATEGY

4.1.1. CONTROL STRUCTURE
4.1.2. APPLYING ALINEA IN METACOR

4.2. DYNAMIC NETWORK TRAFFIC ASSIGNMENT AND ROUTE GUIDANCE VIA FEEDBACK REGULATION

4.2.1. ROUTE DIVERSION VIA VMS
4.2.2. USER OPTIMUM DYNAMIC ASSIGNMENT

5. SIMULATION TESTS

5.1. FIXED ROUTING WITHOUT CONTROL
5.2. FIXED ROUTING WITH RAMP-METERING
5.3. VARIABLE ROUTING VIA VMS WITH RAMP-METERING
5.4. USER OPTIMUM DYNAMIC ASSIGNMENT WITHOUT RAMP-METERING
5.5. USER OPTIMUM DYNAMIC ASSIGNMENT WITH RAMP-METERING
5.6. USER OPTIMUM DYNAMIC ASSIGNMENT WITH RAMP-METERING AND SIGNΑL CONTROL MODIFICATIONS

6. CONCLUSIONS

REFERENCES

APPENDIX