Autonomous vehicle technology will transform fundamentally urban traffic systems.To better enhance the coming era of connected and autonomous vehicles,effective control strategies that interact wisely with these intel...Autonomous vehicle technology will transform fundamentally urban traffic systems.To better enhance the coming era of connected and autonomous vehicles,effective control strategies that interact wisely with these intelligent vehicles for signalized at-grade intersections are indispensable.Vehicle-to-infrastructure communication technology offers unprecedented clues to reduce the delay at signalized intersections by innovative information-based control strategies.This paper proposes a new dynamic control strategy for signalized intersections with vehicle-to-signal information.The proposed strategy is called periodic vehicle holding(PVH)strategy while the traffic signal can provide information for the vehicles that are approaching an intersection.Under preliminary autonomous vehicle(PAV)environment,left-turning and through-moving vehicles will be sorted based on different information they receive.The paper shows how PVH reorganizes traffic to increase the capacity of an intersection without causing severe spillback to the upstream intersection.Results show that PVH can reduce the delay by approximately 15%at a signalized intersection under relatively high traffic demand.展开更多
In order to improve the performance of the signalized intersection,an unconventional scheme tandem design(TD)is proposed.A simulation experiment is conducted to evaluate the capacity and delay under the unconventional...In order to improve the performance of the signalized intersection,an unconventional scheme tandem design(TD)is proposed.A simulation experiment is conducted to evaluate the capacity and delay under the unconventional scheme and two conventional lane assignment schemes.First,the VISSIM is employed as microsimulation to obtain the delay of different designs at signalized T-intersections under different conditions of traffic flow and turning proportion.Secondly,a method based on discriminant analysis(DA)is proposed to determine the best design scheme using the flow and turning proportion as inputs.Finally,a case study in Changsha city,China is used to demonstrate the efficiency and accuracy of these findings.The results indicate that the traffic flow and turning proportion are the crucial factors in scheme selection of lane assignment.Different from the previous research,the TD has better performance over various traffic flow levels.Furthermore,a proper proportion of left turns makes TD an outstanding option,which can reduce the delay and decrease the average number of stops and queue length significantly.However,the proportion should not be too high or too low.The research results can help practitioners obtain a quantitative view of appropriate design schemes at signalized intersections when trying to relieve traffic congestion according to different traffic conditions.展开更多
文摘Autonomous vehicle technology will transform fundamentally urban traffic systems.To better enhance the coming era of connected and autonomous vehicles,effective control strategies that interact wisely with these intelligent vehicles for signalized at-grade intersections are indispensable.Vehicle-to-infrastructure communication technology offers unprecedented clues to reduce the delay at signalized intersections by innovative information-based control strategies.This paper proposes a new dynamic control strategy for signalized intersections with vehicle-to-signal information.The proposed strategy is called periodic vehicle holding(PVH)strategy while the traffic signal can provide information for the vehicles that are approaching an intersection.Under preliminary autonomous vehicle(PAV)environment,left-turning and through-moving vehicles will be sorted based on different information they receive.The paper shows how PVH reorganizes traffic to increase the capacity of an intersection without causing severe spillback to the upstream intersection.Results show that PVH can reduce the delay by approximately 15%at a signalized intersection under relatively high traffic demand.
文摘In order to improve the performance of the signalized intersection,an unconventional scheme tandem design(TD)is proposed.A simulation experiment is conducted to evaluate the capacity and delay under the unconventional scheme and two conventional lane assignment schemes.First,the VISSIM is employed as microsimulation to obtain the delay of different designs at signalized T-intersections under different conditions of traffic flow and turning proportion.Secondly,a method based on discriminant analysis(DA)is proposed to determine the best design scheme using the flow and turning proportion as inputs.Finally,a case study in Changsha city,China is used to demonstrate the efficiency and accuracy of these findings.The results indicate that the traffic flow and turning proportion are the crucial factors in scheme selection of lane assignment.Different from the previous research,the TD has better performance over various traffic flow levels.Furthermore,a proper proportion of left turns makes TD an outstanding option,which can reduce the delay and decrease the average number of stops and queue length significantly.However,the proportion should not be too high or too low.The research results can help practitioners obtain a quantitative view of appropriate design schemes at signalized intersections when trying to relieve traffic congestion according to different traffic conditions.
