Highlights Many congested commuting arterials may experience with heaving turning flows. It is essential to provide progression for both through and turning path-flows. This paper presents three multi-path progression models in response to such need. The numerical results have confirmed the effectiveness of the proposed models. The models can outperform existing methods in dealing with heavy turning flows.
Abstract To contend with congestion and spillback on commuting arterials, serving as connectors between freeway and surface-street flows, this paper presents three multi-path progression models to offer progression bands for multiple critical path-flows contributing to the high volume in each arterial link. The first proposed model is a direct extension of MAXBAND under a predetermined phasing plan, but using the path-flow data to yield the progression bands. The second model further takes the phase sequence at each intersection as a decision variable, and concurrently optimizes the signal plans with offsets for the entire arterial. Due to the competing nature of multi-path progression flows over the same green duration, the third model is proposed with a function to automatically select the optimal number of paths in their bandwidths maximization process. The results of extensive simulation studies have shown that the proposed models outperform conventional design methods, such as MAXBAND or TRANSYT, especially for those arterials with multiple heavy path-flows. The research results from this study have also reflected the need to collect more traffic pattern data such as major path-flow volumes, in addition to the typical intersection volume counts.
A multi-path progression model for synchronization of arterial traffic signals
Tramsportation Research, Part C: Emerging Technologies ; 53 ; 93-111
2015-02-16
19 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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