Real-time network-wide traffic signal optimization considering long-term green ratios based on expected route flows》.pdf

Transportation Research Part C 60 (2015) 241–257 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Transportation Research Part C journal homepage: www.el /locate/trc Real-time network-wide traffic signal optimization considering long-term green ratios based on expected route flows Inchul Yang a,b,⇑, R. Jayakrishnan c a Highway Research Institute, Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology, Goyang-si, Republic of Korea b Dept. of Intelligent Transport Systems, Korea University of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea c Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: We propose a novel real-time network-wide traffic signal control scheme which is (1) Received 19 May 2014 applicable under modern data technologies, (2) flexible in response to variations of traffic Received in revised form 8 September 2015 flows due to its non-cyclic feature, (3) operable on a network-wide and real-time basis, and Accepted 9 September 2015 (4) capable of considering expected route flows in the form of long-term green time ratios for intersection movement. The proposed system has a two-level hierarchical architecture: (1) strategy level and (2) control level. Considering the optimal states for a long-term per- Keywords: iod found in the strategy level, the optimal signal timings for a short-term period are cal- Adaptive traffic signal control