1. Lane-based signal optimization with left turn prohibition in urban road networks
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Tang, Qinrui, Liu, Huijun, and Friedrich, Bernhard
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Traffic regulations -- Analysis ,Traffic engineering -- Models ,Traffic signals -- Planning ,Optimization theory -- Usage ,Company business planning ,Engineering and manufacturing industries - Abstract
Left turns may generate efficiency problems, which can be solved by appropriately prohibiting left turns. The goal of this paper is to propose a method for purpose of minimizing total travel times in urban road networks by prohibiting left turns. With left turn prohibition, the signal timing plan is optimized with the lane- based method because the method can adequately handle both signal timing optimization and lane assignment. The total travel time is calculated with link flows and link travel time being estimated with signal settings. As illustrated by numerical examples, prohibiting left turns reduces the total travel time of car traffic in road networks. As the left turn prohibition results can handle the randomness in the network, these results provide potential implications for congestion management.Key words: left turn prohibition, lane-based signal optimization, turning restriction, stochastic user equilibrium, left turn treatment.Les virages a gauche peuvent entrainer des problemes d'efficacite qui peuvent etre resolus en interdisant de maniere ciblee les virages a gauche. Le but de cette etude est de proposer une methode en vue de minimiser la duree totale du deplacement sur les reseaux routiers urbains en interdisant les virages a gauche. Au moyen de l'interdiction du virage a gauche, le plan de synchronisation de la signalisation est optimise a l'aide de la methode en fonction des voies, car celle-ci peut adequatement gerer l'optimisation de la synchronisation de signalisation et l'affectation des voies. La duree totale de deplacement est calculee en estimant les debits de liaisons et la duree de deplacement sur les liaisons, et ce, a l'aide de parametres de signalisation. D'apres les exemples numeriques, l'interdiction des virages a gauche permet de reduire la duree totale de deplacement pour la circulation automobile sur les reseaux routiers. Puisque les resultats d'interdiction de virage a gauche montrent la capacite de traiter le caractere stochastique du reseau, ces resultats fournissent des repercussions possibles au niveau de la gestion de la congestion. [Traduit par la Redaction]Mots-cles: interdiction de virage a gauche, optimisation de la signalisation en fonction des voies, interdiction de virage, equilibre d'utilisateur stochastique, traitement de virage a gauche., 1. IntroductionLeft turn movements may have negative impacts on the efficiency of signalized urban networks if they were not well accommodated. Permitted left turns are one of the most hazardous [...]
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- 2019
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