When it comes to VSL(variable speed limits) control before freeway main toll station, setting excess VMS(variable message signs) will result in a waste of resource and information redundancy, while too few VMS can not manage to guide and smooth traffic flow due to the poor continuity of VMS and further guarantee traffic safety. Besides, different VSL programs may need different number of VMS. However, there are no research to date proposing a method to determine the number of VMS and corresponding VSL programs. Thus, an optimal model aiming at minimizing accident rate is established to determine the number of VMS, taking economic cost and speed limits as constraints, then, accident rates for different number of VMS are solved out, according to which optimal number of VMS is determined, and finally, corresponding VSL control method is proposed.


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    Title :

    Variable Speed Limits Control Based on Accident Rate before Freeway Main Toll Station


    Contributors:
    Peng, Bo (author) / Hu, Lu (author) / Jiang, Yangsheng (author) / Tu, Dan (author) / Zhang, Luxi (author)

    Conference:

    Third International Conference on Transportation Engineering (ICTE) ; 2011 ; Chengdu, China


    Published in:

    ICTE 2011 ; 2873-2878


    Publication date :

    2011-07-13




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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