A Time-Variant Travel Time Prediction Model and Its Application in...
This paper presents a travel time prediction model and an application of this model to road vehicle cooperative control systems. The travel time prediction model considers vehicle delay due to...
View ArticleEstimating Queue Distance Under Connected Vehicle Technology: Using Probe...
With the emergence of the Connected Vehicle technology, estimating the queue distance using probe trajectory data has recently received considerable attention. Different from data collected at loop...
View ArticleNext-Generation Intersection Control Algorithm for Autonomous Vehicles
This paper presents a reservation-based autonomous intersection control algorithm, named Autonomous Control of Urban TrAffic (ACUTA). The ACUTA allows centralized management of autonomous vehicles...
View ArticlePerformance Assessment on Noncoordinated Signalized Arterials and Guidelines...
This paper introduces a probabilistic model for calculating the expected number of stops on non-coordinated arterials. The model can be applied to developing a practical guideline for determining when...
View ArticleGlobal Optimization Approach for Combined Traffic Assignment and Signal Control
This paper proposed a global optimization method for solving the combined traffic assignment and signal control problem. Conventionally, the problem is formulated into a bi-level program: the...
View ArticleIn-Vehicle Stopping Decision Advisory System for Drivers Approaching a...
All drivers are familiar with the basic traffic signal dilemma: whether to enter the intersection or to stop when they see the green phase ending. Wrong decisions to cross may lead to Red Light Running...
View ArticleOnline Traffic Simulation Service for Highway Incident Management
This Innovations Deserving Exploratory Analysis (IDEA) project improved on technology created at the University of California, Berkeley to provide fast and reliable traffic simulation capabilities to...
View ArticleMethod and Case Study for Quantifying Local Emissions Impacts of a...
Tailpipe emissions significantly contribute to air quality problems at both local and regional scales. The quantity of tailpipe emissions is affected by several factors including vehicle...
View ArticleA Statistical Study of the Impacts of SCATS Adaptive Traffic Signal Control...
SCATS adaptive traffic system control is designed to improve mobility on congested corridors with variable demand but not as a tool to improve transit performance. However, many urban corridors are...
View ArticleOptimal Planning of Signal Control and Uninterrupted Flow Strategies in a...
It is well accepted in literature that uninterrupted flow (or cross-elimination) operations can significantly outperform signal control strategies in terms of expanding network capacity and improving...
View ArticleEvaluation of a Lighted Pavement Marking System for Lane Delineation
This paper presents the operational and safety evaluation and maintenance experience from the use of lighted pavement markers (LPMs) to delineate a triple left-turn movement at a signalized diamond...
View ArticleMeasuring User Awareness at Signalized Intersections
Drivers have limited awareness of changes in trip attributes or the performance of the traffic system. Due to non-utilitarian behavior and perceptual biases a distinctive amount of changes go unnoticed...
View ArticleThe Impact of Traffic Signal Timing on Sidewalk Level Particulate Matter...
Improving the efficiency of urban traffic operations along arterials is a priority for many agencies because congestion has an impact on the people and goods movement in many cities. Advanced traffic...
View ArticleTraffic Signal Control with Connected Vehicles
The operation of traffic signals is currently limited by the data available from traditional point sensors. Point detectors, often in-ground inductive loop sensors, can provide only limited vehicle...
View ArticleDevelopment and Use of Critical Functional Requirements for Controller...
Modern traffic signal controllers usually have to adopt to local transportation agency requirements. The standardization of controller hardware under Advanced Transportation Controller standard...
View ArticleAn Approach for Developing Signal Timing Plans for Managing Queues in...
Managing traffic during oversaturated conditions is a challenge for practitioners due to the lack of adequate optimization tools for addressing such situations. Unlike under-saturated conditions,...
View ArticleArterial Queue Spillback Detection and Signal Control Based on Connected...
Queue spillbacks are a major problem in urban signalized arterials because they can lead to gridlock and excessive delays. Several methods based on fixed location detector data have been proposed to...
View ArticleA Formulation and Evaluation of the Impacts of Switching Control Objectives...
In Under-saturated conditions, delay minimization and bandwidth maximization are the two main objectives that are used to optimize traffic signals in arterial networks. Targeting one or both of these...
View ArticleEstimating Capacity of High-Volume Bus Rapid Transit Stations
A critical element in estimating the capacity of a bus rapid transit (BRT) line is the flow capacity of the running way measured in buses per hour. In this paper, the authors estimate capacity in high...
View ArticleDevelopment and Calibration of Daily Regional Dynamic Traffic Assignment...
This paper presented computationally effective approaches to enable the development and calibration of a large-scale 24-hour regional simulation-based dynamic traffic assignment (DTA) model. The...
View Article