This paper presents a combined method for short-term forecasting of detector counts in urban networks and subsequent traffic demand estimation using the forecasted counts as constraints to estimate origin-destination (OD) flows, route and link volumes. The method is intended to be used in the framework of an adaptive traffic control strategy with consecutive optimization intervals of 15. min. The method continuously estimates the forthcoming traffic demand that can be used as input data for the optimization. The forecasting uses current and reference space-time-patterns of detector counts. The reference patterns are derived from data collected in the past. The current pattern comprises all detector counts of the last four time intervals. A simple but effective pattern matching is used for forecasting. The subsequent demand estimation is based on the information minimization model that has been integrated into an iterative procedure with repeated traffic assignment and matrix estimation until a stable solution is found. Some enhancements including the improvement of constraints, redundancy elimination of these constraints and a travel time estimation based on a macroscopic simulation using the Cell Transmission Model have been implemented. The overall method, its modules and its performance, which has been assessed using artificially created data for a real sub-network in Hannover, Germany, by means of a microsimulation with Aimsun NG, are presented in this paper.


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    Title :

    A combined method to forecast and estimate traffic demand in urban networks


    Contributors:

    Publication date :

    2013


    Type of media :

    Preprint


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



    Classification :

    DDC:    380
    RVK:    ZO 0001




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