Tandem Collaborative Control of Expressway Toll Station and Adjacent Intersection
Abstract
To solve the problem of frequent vehicles interweaving and traffic queue overflow in the close range zone between expressway toll station and adjacent intersection, this study proposes an optimization method of tandem collaborative control for intersection connecting with toll station, analyzes the traffic characteristics when the on-ramps and out-ramps of toll station locate in the inner lanes of the intersection, and develops a mixed integer linear programming model for signal timing optimization with constraint variables of main-signal phase, pre-signal phase and flow partitioning considered. The results from extensive numerical analyses reveal that the optimized control can increase the capacity of toll stations and adjacent intersection by up to 32.74%, meanwhile, the increased proportion shows a trend of increasing first and then decreasing as the proportion of left-turn flow ratio on intersection increases.
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