AbstractThe paper presents a unified macroscopic model-based approach to real-time freeway network traffic surveillance as well as a software tool RENAISSANCE that has been recently developed to implement this approach for field applications. RENAISSANCE is designed on the basis of stochastic macroscopic freeway network traffic flow modeling, extended Kalman filtering, and a number of traffic surveillance algorithms. Fed with a limited amount of real-time traffic measurements, RENAISSANCE enables a number of freeway network traffic surveillance tasks, including traffic state estimation and short-term traffic state prediction, travel time estimation and prediction, queue tail/head/length estimation and prediction, and incident alarm. The traffic state estimation and prediction lay the operating foundation of RENAISSANCE since RENAISSANCE bases the other traffic surveillance tasks on its traffic state estimation or prediction results. The paper first introduces the utilized stochastic macroscopic freeway network traffic flow model and a real-time traffic measurement model, upon which the complete dynamic system model of RENAISSANCE is established with special attention to the handling of some important model parameters. The algorithms for the various traffic surveillance tasks addressed are described along with the functional architecture of the tool. A simulation test was conducted via application of RENAISSANCE to a hypothetical freeway network example with a sparse detector configuration, and the testing results are presented in some detail. Final conclusions and future work are outlined.


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    Title :

    RENAISSANCE – A unified macroscopic model-based approach to real-time freeway network traffic surveillance


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    Publication date :

    2006-06-17


    Size :

    23 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English





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