A Compartmental Model for Traffic Networks and Its Dynamical Behavior

DOI10.1109/TAC.2015.2411916MaRDI QIDQ2982550zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Samuel Coogan, Murat Arcak

Publication date 16 May 2017

Published in IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.6354

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Deterministic network models in operations research (90B10) Traffic problems in operations research (90B20)

Abstract: We propose a macroscopic traffic network flow model suitable for analysis as a dynamical system, and we qualitatively analyze equilibrium flows as well as convergence. Flows at a junction are determined by downstream supply of capacity as well as upstream demand of traffic wishing to flow through the junction. This approach is rooted in the celebrated Cell Transmission Model for freeway traffic flow. Unlike related results which rely on certain system cooperativity properties, our model generally does not possess these properties. We show that the lack of cooperativity is in fact a useful feature that allows traffic control methods, such as ramp metering, to be effective. Finally, we leverage the results of the paper to develop a linear program for optimal ramp metering.

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