Freeway traffic control: A survey

S Siri, C Pasquale, S Sacone, A Ferrara - Automatica, 2021 - Elsevier
Freeway traffic control is a broad research area, not only interesting for its applicative
perspective, but also highly motivating for theoretical investigations. This research topic has …

Optimal perimeter control for two urban regions with macroscopic fundamental diagrams: A model predictive approach

N Geroliminis, J Haddad… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent analysis of empirical data from cities showed that a macroscopic fundamental
diagram (MFD) of urban traffic provides for homogenous network regions a unimodal low …

A physics-informed reinforcement learning-based strategy for local and coordinated ramp metering

Y Han, M Wang, L Li, C Roncoli, J Gao, P Liu - … Research Part C: Emerging …, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper proposes a physics-informed reinforcement learning (RL)-based ramp metering
strategy, which trains the RL model using a combination of historic data and synthetic data …

Economic model predictive control of large-scale urban road networks via perimeter control and regional route guidance

II Sirmatel, N Geroliminis - IEEE Transactions on Intelligent …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Local traffic control schemes fall short of achieving coordination with other parts of the urban
road network, whereas a centralized controller based on the detailed traffic models would …

Optimal motorway traffic flow control involving variable speed limits and ramp metering

RC Carlson, I Papamichail… - Transportation …, 2010 - pubsonline.informs.org
The impact of variable speed limits (VSL) on aggregate traffic flow behaviour on motorways
is shown to bear similarities to the impact of ramp metering, in particular, when addressing …

Local feedback-based mainstream traffic flow control on motorways using variable speed limits

RC Carlson, I Papamichail… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent research has proposed mainstream traffic flow control (MTFC), enabled via variable
speed limits (VSLs), as a novel motorway traffic management tool and has demonstrated its …

[HTML][HTML] Flow-level coordination of connected and autonomous vehicles in multilane freeway ramp merging areas

J Zhu, I Tasic, X Qu - Multimodal transportation, 2022 - Elsevier
On-ramp merging areas are deemed to be typical bottlenecks for freeway networks due to
the intensive disturbances induced by the frequent merging, weaving, and lane-changing …

Optimal mainstream traffic flow control of large-scale motorway networks

RC Carlson, I Papamichail, M Papageorgiou… - … Research Part C …, 2010 - Elsevier
The continuously increasing daily traffic congestions on motorway networks around the
world call for innovative control measures that would drastically improve the current traffic …

Traffic flow optimisation in presence of vehicle automation and communication systems–Part II: Optimal control for multi-lane motorways

C Roncoli, M Papageorgiou, I Papamichail - Transportation Research Part …, 2015 - Elsevier
Integrated motorway traffic flow control considering the use of Vehicle Automation and
Communication Systems (VACS) is considered in this paper. VACS may act both as sensors …

Hierarchical ramp metering in freeways: An aggregated modeling and control approach

Y Han, M Ramezani, A Hegyi, Y Yuan… - … research part C …, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper develops a model-based hierarchical control method for coordinated ramp
metering on freeway networks with multiple bottlenecks and on-and off-ramps. The controller …