Title
Optimizing Traffic Flow on Highway with Three Consecutive On-ramps
Abstract
In this paper, we study traffic flow on a highway with three consecutive on-ramps by using the Nagel-Schreckenberg model, which is a generalization of our previous work concerning with highway with two ramps. We still focus on how to improve the system capacity by assigning traffic demand to the three ramps. It is shown that when all ramps are in free flow and the main road upstream of the ramps is in congestion, assigning a highest proportion of the demand to the upstream on-ramp, and lowest proportion of the demand to the downstream on-ramp could improve the overall flow. This is explained through studying the spatiotemporal patterns and analytical investigations. The conclusion could be generalized to highway with more on-ramps, i.e., the more downstream an on-ramp is, the lower the traffic demand should be assigned.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1109/CSO.2012.118
CSO
Keywords
Field
DocType
lowest proportion,overall flow,traffic flow optimization,free flow,roads,optimal assignment,upstream on-ramp,traffic flow,optimizing traffic flow,traffic control,highest proportion,downstream on-ramp,traffic demand,consecutive on-ramps,highways,nagel-schreckenberg model,three consecutive on-ramps,on ramps,assigning traffic demand,lattices,simulation
Traffic wave,Mathematical optimization,Traffic flow,Computer science,Flow (psychology),Nagel–Schreckenberg model,System capacity,Traffic congestion reconstruction with Kerner's three-phase theory
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4673-1365-0
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Lan Lin1172.06
Rui Jiang22210.14
Mao-Bin Hu318713.00
Qing-Song Wu401.01