Macroscopic traffic flow modelling of large-scale freeway networks with field data verification: State-of-the-art review, benchmarking framework, and case studies using …

Y Wang, X Yu, J Guo, I Papamichail… - … Research Part C …, 2022 - Elsevier
Macroscopic traffic flow models are of paramount importance to traffic surveillance and
control. Before their employments in applications, the models need to be calibrated and …

Macroscopic traffic flow model validation at congested freeway off-ramp areas

A Spiliopoulou, M Kontorinaki, M Papageorgiou… - … Research Part C …, 2014 - Elsevier
The reported study tests, validates and compares two well-known macroscopic traffic flow
models in the special, but quite frequently occurring case, where congestion is created due …

Hybrid model predictive control for freeway traffic using discrete speed limit signals

JRD Frejo, A Núñez, B De Schutter… - … Research Part C …, 2014 - Elsevier
In this paper, two hybrid Model Predictive Control (MPC) approaches for freeway traffic
control are proposed considering variable speed limits (VSL) as discrete variables as in …

Operational and safety impacts of integrated variable speed limit with dynamic hard shoulder running

K Arora, L Kattan - Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The combination of various Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) strategies generally has
manifold effects, much greater than when strategies are implemented individually. This …

[PDF][PDF] Word embeddings-based sentence-level sentiment analysis considering word importance

T Hayashi, H Fujita - Acta Polytechnica Hungarica, 2019 - real-j.mtak.hu
Word2vec has been proven to facilitate various Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks.
We suppose that it could separate the vector space of word2vec into positive and negative …

Swarm intelligence algorithms for macroscopic traffic flow model validation with automatic assignment of fundamental diagrams

A Poole, A Kotsialos - Applied Soft Computing, 2016 - Elsevier
This paper is concerned with the problem of macroscopic road traffic flow model calibration
and verification. Thoroughly validated models are necessary for both control system design …

Local and coordinated ramp metering within the unifying framework of an adaptive control scheme

M Kontorinaki, I Karafyllis, M Papageorgiou - Transportation Research Part …, 2019 - Elsevier
This study develops and proposes a unifying control scheme to address the ramp and
mainline metering problems arising in freeways. A distinguishing novelty of the proposed …

Second order macroscopic traffic flow model validation using automatic differentiation with resilient backpropagation and particle swarm optimisation algorithms

A Poole, A Kotsialos - Transportation Research Part C: Emerging …, 2016 - Elsevier
The problem of validating the Modéle d'Écoulement de Trafic sur Autoroute NETworks
(METANET) model of a motorway section is considered. Model calibration is formulated as a …

METANET validation of the large-scale Manchester ring-road network using gradient-based and particle swarm optimization

A Poole, A Kotsialos - IEEE Transactions on Intelligent …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper is concerned with the problem of macroscopic traffic flow model validation for ring-
road shaped large-scale motorway networks. The calibration optimization problem is solved …

Applicability analysis of an extended METANET model in traffic-state prediction for congested freeway corridors

X Wang, D Yin, TZ Qiu - Journal of Transportation Engineering, Part …, 2018 - ascelibrary.org
Macroscopic traffic flow models are often applied as prediction models in proactive traffic
control strategies. For model calibration and validation, existing tests have been conducted …