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
3.1.1. GENERAL3.1. METACOR: A MACROSCOPIC MODELLING TOOL FOR SIMULATING TRAFFIC FLOW IN CORRIDOR NETWORKS
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
4.2. 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