With the increasing attention paid to environmental effects and sustainable infrastructure, transportation agencies are now seeking more cost-effective and environmentally friendly countermeasures against traffic congestion than the traditional roadway expansion. Managed lane (ML) systems, as an innovative strategy for managing the roadway conditions in real time, have been gaining increasing popularity in the recent decade. However, the unique characteristics of ML facilities, such as the frictional effects between general purpose lanes (GPLs) and their adjacent ML, are not well studied and modeled. This paper investigates the interaction between GPLs and MLs, as buffer-separated ML facilities are readily affected by congestion in the adjacent GPLs. The frictional effect is quantified through development of speed–flow curves for the ML facility. A traffic flow model is developed on the basis of the cell transmission model incorporating this frictional effect to model the traffic evolution on the ML facility. This model is capable of replicating the traffic flow pattern, including congestion onset, propagation, and dissipation at a macroscopic level. The model also captures the effect of GPL congestion on the ML. This model can serve as the underlying ML traffic flow model in future research for evaluating the effectiveness of different tolling strategies.
Modeling Traffic Flow Dynamics on Managed Lane Facility
Approach Based on Cell Transmission Model
Transportation Research Record
Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board ; 2278 , 1 ; 163-170
2012-01-01
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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