Contending with congestion on major urban arterials by providing progression bands has long been a priority task for the traffic community. However, on an arterial experiencing heavy left-turn volumes at major intersections, the left-turn queue may spill back rapidly and further degrade the effectiveness of the through progression band if the left-turn volume and the limited bay length have not been accounted for in the optimization of signal coordination plan. Such negative impact from left-turn queues also justifies the need to take into account the concurrent progression of through and left-turn flows on major arterials. To address these two issues, this paper presents a three-staged signal optimization model that can circumvent or minimize the impact of left-turn spillback to the through movements and concurrently minimize the delay of left-turn flows. The proposed model firstly obtains an initial maximized bandwidth from an existing state-of-the-art method and then maximizes the portion of through bandwidth not impeded by the left-turn overflows. The delay of left-turn flows at each intersection will also be minimized under the obtained effective through bandwidth. The results from the numerical analyses have confirmed the benefits and need of including the left-turn volume and its bay length in the design of dual progression for through and left-turn movements. The simulation experiments further show a reduction in the average delay and the number of stops, by 6.4% and 5.5%, respectively, for vehicles traversing an arterial segment of six intersections, compared with the state-of-the-art model, MULTIBAND.


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    Title :

    Concurrent Progression of Through and Turning Movements for Arterials Experiencing Heavy Turning Flows and Bay-Length Constraints


    Additional title:

    Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board


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    Publication date :

    2019-05-05




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English