Components of the transportation system that are most susceptible to the negative effects of congestion are those that link or transitions between modes or facilities. Diamond interchanges provide a controlled means of accessing freeway from the arterial street system and from the freeway. Physically, diamond interchanges are made up of two intersections along the arterial street that are formed at intersections with freeway ramps. The diamond interchange offers the unique opportunity to integrate many innovative technologies into a system that is small enough to be manageable, yet complex enough to present a challenging control environment. Developing a real-time, multimodal, traffic-adaptive interchange control system is a research objective of the Texas A&M Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Research Center of Excellence Program at the Texas Transportation Institute. This research effort will integrate a variety of technologies into a single control system that will increase traffic performance and demonstrate ITS concepts for advanced traffic management systems. Through the use of video imaging equipment, traffic information processing, and real-time optimization and control, road users will experience less delay, less congestion and fewer safety problems at diamond interchanges.


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    Title :

    Real-Time, Multimodal Traffic-Adaptive Diamond Interchange Control System: Laboratory Demonstration


    Contributors:
    S. P. Venglar (author) / T. Urbanik (author)

    Publication date :

    1995


    Size :

    42 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English