Empirical observations of congestion propagation and dynamic partitioning with probe data for large-scale systems

Y Ji, J Luo, N Geroliminis - Transportation Research Record, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
Research on congestion propagation in large urban networks has been based mainly on
microsimulations of link-level traffic dynamics. However, both the unpredictability of travel …

Robust perimeter control for two urban regions with macroscopic fundamental diagrams: A control-Lyapunov function approach

RX Zhong, C Chen, YP Huang, A Sumalee… - … Research Part B …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract The Macroscopic Fundamental Diagram (MFD) framework has been widely utilized
to describe traffic dynamics in urban networks as well as to design perimeter flow control …

[HTML][HTML] An extended Kalman filter approach for real-time state estimation in multi-region MFD urban networks

M Saeedmanesh, A Kouvelas, N Geroliminis - Transportation Research Part …, 2021 - Elsevier
The problem of traffic state estimation for large-scale urban networks modeled with MFD
dynamics is studied here. Given a network partitioned in a number of regions, aggregated …

Coordinated distributed adaptive perimeter control for large-scale urban road networks

J Haddad, B Mirkin - Transportation Research Part C: Emerging …, 2017 - Elsevier
Perimeter traffic control for large-scale urban road networks has been studied by several
researchers during the last decade. Recently, the initial steps towards taking into account …

Model-free perimeter metering control for two-region urban networks using deep reinforcement learning

D Zhou, VV Gayah - Transportation Research Part C: Emerging …, 2021 - Elsevier
Various perimeter metering control strategies have been proposed for urban traffic networks
that rely on the existence of well-defined relationships between network productivity and …

Simulation-based optimization of toll pricing in large-scale urban networks using the network fundamental diagram: A cross-comparison of methods

Z Gu, M Saberi - Transportation Research Part C: Emerging …, 2021 - Elsevier
Simulation-based optimization (SO or SBO) has become increasingly important to address
challenging transportation network design problems. In this paper, we propose to solve two …

Fundamental diagram of ship traffic in the Singapore Strait

L Kang, Q Meng, Q Liu - Ocean Engineering, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract The Singapore Strait plays a vital role for the international freight transportation,
including containers, bulk cargo and crude oil. In view of the importance of Singapore Strait …

The morning commute in urban areas with heterogeneous trip lengths

R Lamotte, N Geroliminis - Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the equilibrium properties of the morning commute problem at the
network level with heterogeneous trip lengths. Congestion is modeled with a Macroscopic …

Analytical optimal solution of perimeter traffic flow control based on MFD dynamics: A Pontryagin's maximum principle approach

A Aalipour, H Kebriaei… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Perimeter traffic flow control, based on the macroscopic fundamental diagram (MFD), has
been introduced for traffic control and congestion management in large-scale networks. The …

Marginal cost congestion pricing based on the network fundamental diagram

MD Simoni, AJ Pel, RA Waraich… - … Research Part C …, 2015 - Elsevier
Congestion pricing schemes have been traditionally derived based on analytical
representations of travel demand and traffic flows, such as in bottleneck models. A major …