Tollbooths: Congestion or Unhindered?

DOI

10.2991/emim-17.2017.272How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Merging area; Toll station; Fuzzy comprehensive evaluation; Real time control

Abstract

Through vissim simulation, we found that if the shape of the merging region is an isosceles trapezoid, the length of the merging region and the length of the straight line after the toll station are longer, the performance is better, but the cost will be increased accordingly. We analyzed the vehicle behavior and congestion, and then we propose a real-time control model for the vehicle merging process. The central idea of this model is to control the density of traffic exiting the toll booths near the maximum toll allowed by the toll road after the toll gate, to ensure that those vehicle who has paid the fee will not lead to the congestion when they through the merger area into the toll road . When the control device detects the upstream traffic volume is greater than the subsequent toll road throughput, using traffic lights to control the vehicles from the toll station exports so that can reduce congestion. Through the simulation and evaluation model, we compared the performance of our design area with the performance of the paid square, the conclusion is that the design area is superior to the original toll station under the assumption.

Copyright

© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Zheyu Zhao
PY  - 2017/04
DA  - 2017/04
TI  - Tollbooths: Congestion or Unhindered?
BT  - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Education, Management, Information and Mechanical Engineering (EMIM 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1348
EP  - 1362
SN  - 2352-538X
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/emim-17.2017.272
DO  - 10.2991/emim-17.2017.272
ID  - Zhao2017/04
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