This paper analyses the performance of motorway control strategies subject to real-time flow measurement and modeling uncertainties. The control strategies are derived and tested on the cell transmission model with which global optimal solutions can be derived through solving linear programs. In particular, we present an adaptive control strategy which incorporates prevailing variations in traffic flow through a rolling horizon optimization framework. This adaptive strategy is compared with a min–max robust control formulation on a Monte Carlo stochastic simulation test bed. The robust control delivers the best performance in terms of minimizing delay variability due to its underlying conservativeness, while it comes at the expense of overall delay reduction. In contrast, the adaptive controller outperforms the robust controller in terms of delay reduction. Nevertheless, the benefit gained from the adaptive control diminishes as the motorway system gets saturated with traffic. It is also found that the adaptive controller is not effective in improving travel time reliability, at least under recurrent conditions. The findings reveal the limitation of adaptive control and provide insight to control design and infrastructure planning concerning installation of an advanced traffic control system.


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    Title :

    Control strategies for dynamic motorway traffic subject to flow uncertainties


    Contributors:
    Li, Ying (author) / Chow, Andy H. F. (author) / Zhong, Renxin (author)

    Published in:

    Publication date :

    2019-12-23


    Size :

    17 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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