Abstract
Unbalanced lane usage on motorways might lead to the reduction in capacity
of the motorway. Lane-level traffic management present new opportunities
to balance the lane-flow distribution and help reduce congestion.
In order to come up with efficient traffic management strategies on a
lane-level, there is a need for accurate lane-specific traffic state estimation
models. This paper presents a first-order lane-level traffic flow model. The
proposed model differs from the existing models in the following areas: (i)
incentive-based motivation for lane changes and consideration of downstream
conditions (ii) transfer of lateral flows among cells. The model is
tested against real-world data. It is observed that the model is able to capture
the lane-level dynamics in terms of the lane flow distribution. The
model results are compared to a linear regression model and results show
that the developed model performs better than the regression model on
the test sections.
of the motorway. Lane-level traffic management present new opportunities
to balance the lane-flow distribution and help reduce congestion.
In order to come up with efficient traffic management strategies on a
lane-level, there is a need for accurate lane-specific traffic state estimation
models. This paper presents a first-order lane-level traffic flow model. The
proposed model differs from the existing models in the following areas: (i)
incentive-based motivation for lane changes and consideration of downstream
conditions (ii) transfer of lateral flows among cells. The model is
tested against real-world data. It is observed that the model is able to capture
the lane-level dynamics in terms of the lane flow distribution. The
model results are compared to a linear regression model and results show
that the developed model performs better than the regression model on
the test sections.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1758-1779 |
| Number of pages | 22 |
| Journal | Transportmetrica B: Transport Dynamics |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2019 |
Bibliographical note
Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Keywords
- cell transmission model
- incentives
- lane flow distribution
- Lane-level
- macroscopic traffic flow model