Graphical abstract Display Omitted Highlights MP is local: the control of an intersection uses only on the queue lengths on adjacent links. MP adaptively adjusts splits to changes in demand without estimating those demands. MP maintains bounded queue lengths if the network can be stabilized by any control. This stability guarantee is not available for adaptive controllers such as SCOOT or ACS-Lite. Counter-examples show some reasonable adaptive controllers that are de-stabilizing.
Abstract The control of a network of signalized intersections is considered. Vehicles arrive in iid (independent, identically distributed) streams at entry links, independently make turns at intersections with fixed probabilities or turn ratios, and leave the network upon reaching an exit link. There is a separate queue for each turn movement at each intersection. These are point queues with no limit on storage capacity. At each time the control selects a ‘stage’, which actuates a set of simultaneous vehicle movements at given iid saturation flow rates. Network evolution is modeled as a controlled store-and-forward (SF) queuing network. The control can be a function of the state, which is the vector of all the queue lengths. A set of demands is said to be feasible if there is a control that stabilizes the queues, that is the time-average of every mean queue length is bounded. The set of feasible demands D is a convex set defined by a collection of linear inequalities involving only the mean values of the demands, turn ratios and saturation rates. If the demands are in the interior D o of D, there is a fixed-time control that stabilizes the queues. The max pressure (MP) control is introduced. At each intersection, MP selects a stage that depends only on the queues adjacent to the intersection. The MP control does not require knowledge of the mean demands. MP stabilizes the network if the demand is in D o. Thus MP maximizes network throughput. MP does require knowledge of mean turn ratios and saturation rates, but an adaptive version of MP will have the same performance, if turn movements and saturation rates can be measured. The advantage of MP over other SF network control formulations is that it (1) only requires local information at each intersection and (2) provably maximizes throughput. Examples show that other local controllers, including priority service and fully actuated control, may not be stabilizing. Several modifications of MP are offered including one that guarantees minimum green for each approach and another that considers weighted queues; also discussed is the effect of finite storage capacity.
Max pressure control of a network of signalized intersections
Tramsportation Research, Part C: Emerging Technologies ; 36 ; 177-195
2013-08-28
19 pages
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