The identification and selection of performance measures play an important role in any decision making process. Additionally, millions of dollars are spent on appropriate planning and identification of prospective pro...The identification and selection of performance measures play an important role in any decision making process. Additionally, millions of dollars are spent on appropriate planning and identification of prospective projects for improvements. As a result, current practitioners spend a lot of time and money in prioritizing their limited resources. This research proposes two tasks: 1) estimation of performance measures using a simulation based on dynamic traffic assignment model, and 2) development of a methodology to evaluate multiple projects based on benefit-cost analysis. The model, DynusT, is used for the Las Vegas roadway network during the morning peak time period. A comparative analysis of the results from proposed methodology with existing California Benefit-Cost (Cal-B/C) models is presented. The results indicate that the new methodology provides an accurate benefit-cost ratio of the projects. In addition, it signifies that the existing Cal-B/C models underestimate the benefits associated with the prospective project improvements. The major contribution of this research is the simultaneous estimation of the performance measures and development of a methodology to evaluate multiple projects. This is helpful to decision makers to rank and prioritize future projects in a cost-effective manner. Planning and operational policies for the transportation systems can be developed based on the gained insights from this study.展开更多
A properly designed public transport system is expected to improve traffic efficiency.A high-frequency bus service would decrease the waiting time for passengers,but the interaction between buses and cars might result...A properly designed public transport system is expected to improve traffic efficiency.A high-frequency bus service would decrease the waiting time for passengers,but the interaction between buses and cars might result in more serious congestion.On the other hand,a low-frequency bus service would increase the waiting time for passengers and would not reduce the use of private cars.It is important to strike a balance between high and low frequencies in order to minimize the total delays for all road users.It is critical to formulate the impacts of bus frequency on congestion dynamics and mode choices.However,as far as the authors know,most proposed bus frequency optimization formulations are based on static demand and the Bureau of Public Roads function,and do not properly consider the congestion dynamics and their impacts on mode choices.To fill this gap,this paper proposes a bi-level optimization model.A three-dimensional Macroscopic Fundamental Diagram based modeling approach is developed to capture the bi-modal congestion dynamics.A variational inequality model for the user equilibrium in mode choices is presented and solved using a double projection algorithm.A surrogate model-based algorithm is used to solve the bi-level programming problem.展开更多
On-road Vehicular traffic congestion has detrimental effect on three lifelines: Economy, Productivity and Pollution (EPP). With ever increasing population of vehicles on road, traffic congestion is a major challenge t...On-road Vehicular traffic congestion has detrimental effect on three lifelines: Economy, Productivity and Pollution (EPP). With ever increasing population of vehicles on road, traffic congestion is a major challenge to the economy, productivity and pollution, notwithstanding continuous developments in alternative fuels, alternative sources of energy. The research develops accurate and precise model in real time which computes congestion detection, dynamic signaling algorithm to evenly distribute vehicle densities while ensuring avoidance of starvation and deadlock situation. The model incorporates road segment length and breadth, quality and achievable average speed to compute road capacity. Vehicles installed with GPS enabled devices provide their location, which enables computing road occupancy. Road occupancy is evaluated based on number of vehicles as well as area occupied by vehicles. Ratio of road occupancy and road capacity provides congestion index important to compute signal phases. The algorithm ensures every direction is serviced once during a signaling cycle ensuring no starvation. Secondly, the definition of minimum and maximum signal timings ensures against dead lock situation. A simulator is developed to validate the proposition and proves it can ease congestion by more than 50% which is better than any of the contemporary approaches offering 15% improvement. In case of higher congestion index, alternate routes are suggested based on evaluation of traffic density graphs for shortest route or knowledge database. The algorithm to compute shortest route is optimized drastically, reducing computation cost to 3*√2N vis-à-vis computation cost of N2 by classical algorithms. The proposal brings down the cost of implementation per traffic junction from USD 30,000 to USD 2000.展开更多
The problem of designing integration traffic strategies for traffic corridors with the use of ramp metering, speed limit, and route guidance is considered in this paper. As an improvement to the previous work, the pre...The problem of designing integration traffic strategies for traffic corridors with the use of ramp metering, speed limit, and route guidance is considered in this paper. As an improvement to the previous work, the presented approach has the following five features： 1） modeling traffic flow to analyze traffic characteristics under the influence of variable speed limit, on-ramp metering and guidance information; 2） building a hierarchy model to realize the integration design of traffic control and route guidance in traffic corridors; 3） devising a multi-class analytical dynamic traffic assignment （DTA） model for traffic corridors, where not only the route choice process will be different for each user-class, but also the traffic flow operations are user-class specific because the travel time characteristic for each user-class is considered; 4） predicting route choice probabilities adaptively with real-time traffic conditions and route choice behaviors corresponding to variant users, rather than assuming as pre-determined; and 5） suggesting a numerical solution algorithm of the hierarchy model presented in this paper based on the modified algorithm of iterative optimization assignment （IOA）. Preliminary numerical test demonstrates the potential of the developed model and algorithm for integration corridor control.展开更多
The problem of designing integrated traffic control strategies for highway networks with the use of route guidance, ramp metering is considered. The highway network is simulated using a first order macroscopic model c...The problem of designing integrated traffic control strategies for highway networks with the use of route guidance, ramp metering is considered. The highway network is simulated using a first order macroscopic model called LWR model which is a mathematical traffic flow model that formulates the relationships among traffic flow characteristics in terms of density, flow, and mean speed of the traffic stream. An integrated control algorithm is designed to solve the proposed problem, based on the inverse control technique and variable structure control（super twisting sliding mode）. Three case studies have been tested in the presence of an on-ramp at each alternate route and where there is a capacity constraint in the network. In the first case study, there is no capacity constraint at either upstream or downstream of the alternate routes and the function of the proposed algorithm is only to balance the traffic flow on the alternate routes. In the second case study, there is capacity constraint at downstream of alternate routes. The proposed algorithm aims to avoid congestion on the main road and balance the traffic flow on the alternate routes. In the last case study, there is capacity constraint at upstream of alternate routes. The objective of proposed algorithm is to avoid congestion on the main road and to balance the traffic flow on the alternate routes. The obtained results show that the proposed algorithms can establish user equilibrium between two alternate routes even when the on-ramps, located at alternate routes, have different traffic demands.展开更多
An active transportation and demand management framework focusing on tradable mobility credits(TMC)is integrated into an agent-based modeling and simulation(ABMS)platform.In this framework,it is conceived that an auct...An active transportation and demand management framework focusing on tradable mobility credits(TMC)is integrated into an agent-based modeling and simulation(ABMS)platform.In this framework,it is conceived that an auction market within which mobility credits can be transferred between buyers and sellers is constructed in general.The idea of ABMS is extensively incorporated to mimic system users’daily route choices as well as market-related micro-economical decision making process under TMC circumstance.Users are able to form individual propensities towards available bid/ask choices by reinforcement learning principles.The integrated platform offers a brand new insight view of microscopic aspect of the daily operations of credit transfer market,which has hardly been obtained by prior analytical models.Day-to-day traffic dynamics and market dynamics can be captured.Besides,market MOEs,including convergence,stability,efficiency and relative market powers of buyers and sellers under different market policies are investigated.展开更多
访问控制是应用系统中的重要问题之一。传统的基于角色的访问控制(RBAC)方案需要预先定义和同步用户-角色赋值关系,这会带来管理成本和同步开销,并且限制了应用系统的灵活性和动态性。文章提出一种基于策略的动态角色分配模型(Policy-ba...访问控制是应用系统中的重要问题之一。传统的基于角色的访问控制(RBAC)方案需要预先定义和同步用户-角色赋值关系,这会带来管理成本和同步开销,并且限制了应用系统的灵活性和动态性。文章提出一种基于策略的动态角色分配模型(Policy-based Dynamic Role Assignment Model——PDRA),它无需同步用户就可以自定义角色,并通过策略匹配的方式实现动态分配。模型完全兼容RBAC,可以成为RBAC良好的扩展机制。文章给出了模型的定义和算法,评估了模型的性能,并在华东师范大学的数据治理平台中进行了应用,验证了该方案的可行性和有效性。展开更多
传统电动汽车充电负荷建模通常采用对电动汽车个体进行抽样模拟的方式,未能从分析机理的角度描述电动汽车群体相互作用形成的宏观运行状态。为此,提出一种基于半动态交通均衡模型和组合荷电状态(combined states of the charge,CSOC)概...传统电动汽车充电负荷建模通常采用对电动汽车个体进行抽样模拟的方式,未能从分析机理的角度描述电动汽车群体相互作用形成的宏观运行状态。为此,提出一种基于半动态交通均衡模型和组合荷电状态(combined states of the charge,CSOC)概率计算的电动汽车充电负荷概率分布计算方法。首先,分析电动汽车的交通特性和充电特性,并提出一种可行路径集构建方法;然后,引入交通均衡理论进行电动汽车空间分布建模,建立考虑随机效用的半动态交通均衡模型,实现宏观交通流均衡分配。进一步地,从理论层面分析电动汽车群的荷电状态变化,建立基于CSOC的充电负荷概率分布计算模型。最后,分别在13节点路网和实际大路网中验证所提方法的有效性,并分析了电动汽车渗透率和路网结构对充电负荷概率分布的影响。展开更多
Through and right-turn shared lanes are widely designed to increase the capacity of through traffic,but they can also cause delays for right-turn vehicles.This study presents a dynamic control method for a shared lane...Through and right-turn shared lanes are widely designed to increase the capacity of through traffic,but they can also cause delays for right-turn vehicles.This study presents a dynamic control method for a shared lane that prioritizes right-turn vehicles at the beginning of the cycle and subsequently allows through traffic to queue in the shared lane for saturated discharge.The traffic wave model is employed to reveal the dynamics of the traffic flow under this control and to derive the relationships among major traffic parameters.Constrained by the major relationship,a linear programming approach to minimize the total queue length is developed to determine the proper values of control parameters,including the shared area length,subordinate signal time lag,and shared or exclusive duration.A sensitivity analysis of the control parameters for different arrival rates and flow ratios is performed.Comparisons are conducted among the dynamic shared lane,the fixed exclusive lane,and the fixed shared lane.The results show that the dynamic control method results in a lower delay for both through and total traffic.展开更多
采用遗传算法对动态交通网络平衡微分博弈模型进行求解,将动态混合行为交通网络平衡模型构造为一个开环信息结构下N个局中人非合作非零和博弈,并考虑了一个单OD对之间有两个平行弧的简单网络和两类局中人——用户平衡(UE)和古诺-纳升(C...采用遗传算法对动态交通网络平衡微分博弈模型进行求解,将动态混合行为交通网络平衡模型构造为一个开环信息结构下N个局中人非合作非零和博弈,并考虑了一个单OD对之间有两个平行弧的简单网络和两类局中人——用户平衡(UE)和古诺-纳升(C-N)——在拥挤现象中的相互作用,针对此简单网络阐明了遗传算法求解模型的具体步骤。遗传算法求解不必要求目标函数连续可微,大大提高了模型的适用性。通过算例对所设计的算法进行了验证,在算例中将Wie BW(1993)的研究中部分参数取值作了修改,使其更加合乎交通实际,并将计算结果与Wie B W(1993)采用最小值原理计算结果进行了对比分析,通过对比分析表明,其计算结果更符合交通实际。展开更多
文摘The identification and selection of performance measures play an important role in any decision making process. Additionally, millions of dollars are spent on appropriate planning and identification of prospective projects for improvements. As a result, current practitioners spend a lot of time and money in prioritizing their limited resources. This research proposes two tasks: 1) estimation of performance measures using a simulation based on dynamic traffic assignment model, and 2) development of a methodology to evaluate multiple projects based on benefit-cost analysis. The model, DynusT, is used for the Las Vegas roadway network during the morning peak time period. A comparative analysis of the results from proposed methodology with existing California Benefit-Cost (Cal-B/C) models is presented. The results indicate that the new methodology provides an accurate benefit-cost ratio of the projects. In addition, it signifies that the existing Cal-B/C models underestimate the benefits associated with the prospective project improvements. The major contribution of this research is the simultaneous estimation of the performance measures and development of a methodology to evaluate multiple projects. This is helpful to decision makers to rank and prioritize future projects in a cost-effective manner. Planning and operational policies for the transportation systems can be developed based on the gained insights from this study.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.72201088,71871077,71925001)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China(Grant No.PA2022GDSK0040,JZ2023YQTD0073),which are gratefully acknowledged.
文摘A properly designed public transport system is expected to improve traffic efficiency.A high-frequency bus service would decrease the waiting time for passengers,but the interaction between buses and cars might result in more serious congestion.On the other hand,a low-frequency bus service would increase the waiting time for passengers and would not reduce the use of private cars.It is important to strike a balance between high and low frequencies in order to minimize the total delays for all road users.It is critical to formulate the impacts of bus frequency on congestion dynamics and mode choices.However,as far as the authors know,most proposed bus frequency optimization formulations are based on static demand and the Bureau of Public Roads function,and do not properly consider the congestion dynamics and their impacts on mode choices.To fill this gap,this paper proposes a bi-level optimization model.A three-dimensional Macroscopic Fundamental Diagram based modeling approach is developed to capture the bi-modal congestion dynamics.A variational inequality model for the user equilibrium in mode choices is presented and solved using a double projection algorithm.A surrogate model-based algorithm is used to solve the bi-level programming problem.
文摘On-road Vehicular traffic congestion has detrimental effect on three lifelines: Economy, Productivity and Pollution (EPP). With ever increasing population of vehicles on road, traffic congestion is a major challenge to the economy, productivity and pollution, notwithstanding continuous developments in alternative fuels, alternative sources of energy. The research develops accurate and precise model in real time which computes congestion detection, dynamic signaling algorithm to evenly distribute vehicle densities while ensuring avoidance of starvation and deadlock situation. The model incorporates road segment length and breadth, quality and achievable average speed to compute road capacity. Vehicles installed with GPS enabled devices provide their location, which enables computing road occupancy. Road occupancy is evaluated based on number of vehicles as well as area occupied by vehicles. Ratio of road occupancy and road capacity provides congestion index important to compute signal phases. The algorithm ensures every direction is serviced once during a signaling cycle ensuring no starvation. Secondly, the definition of minimum and maximum signal timings ensures against dead lock situation. A simulator is developed to validate the proposition and proves it can ease congestion by more than 50% which is better than any of the contemporary approaches offering 15% improvement. In case of higher congestion index, alternate routes are suggested based on evaluation of traffic density graphs for shortest route or knowledge database. The algorithm to compute shortest route is optimized drastically, reducing computation cost to 3*√2N vis-à-vis computation cost of N2 by classical algorithms. The proposal brings down the cost of implementation per traffic junction from USD 30,000 to USD 2000.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.50808025)the Ministry of Communications of China Application Foundation (No.2006319815080)+1 种基金the Key Project of Hunan Education Department (No.08A003)the Project of Hunan Science and Technology Department (No.2008GK3114)
文摘The problem of designing integration traffic strategies for traffic corridors with the use of ramp metering, speed limit, and route guidance is considered in this paper. As an improvement to the previous work, the presented approach has the following five features： 1） modeling traffic flow to analyze traffic characteristics under the influence of variable speed limit, on-ramp metering and guidance information; 2） building a hierarchy model to realize the integration design of traffic control and route guidance in traffic corridors; 3） devising a multi-class analytical dynamic traffic assignment （DTA） model for traffic corridors, where not only the route choice process will be different for each user-class, but also the traffic flow operations are user-class specific because the travel time characteristic for each user-class is considered; 4） predicting route choice probabilities adaptively with real-time traffic conditions and route choice behaviors corresponding to variant users, rather than assuming as pre-determined; and 5） suggesting a numerical solution algorithm of the hierarchy model presented in this paper based on the modified algorithm of iterative optimization assignment （IOA）. Preliminary numerical test demonstrates the potential of the developed model and algorithm for integration corridor control.
文摘The problem of designing integrated traffic control strategies for highway networks with the use of route guidance, ramp metering is considered. The highway network is simulated using a first order macroscopic model called LWR model which is a mathematical traffic flow model that formulates the relationships among traffic flow characteristics in terms of density, flow, and mean speed of the traffic stream. An integrated control algorithm is designed to solve the proposed problem, based on the inverse control technique and variable structure control（super twisting sliding mode）. Three case studies have been tested in the presence of an on-ramp at each alternate route and where there is a capacity constraint in the network. In the first case study, there is no capacity constraint at either upstream or downstream of the alternate routes and the function of the proposed algorithm is only to balance the traffic flow on the alternate routes. In the second case study, there is capacity constraint at downstream of alternate routes. The proposed algorithm aims to avoid congestion on the main road and balance the traffic flow on the alternate routes. In the last case study, there is capacity constraint at upstream of alternate routes. The objective of proposed algorithm is to avoid congestion on the main road and to balance the traffic flow on the alternate routes. The obtained results show that the proposed algorithms can establish user equilibrium between two alternate routes even when the on-ramps, located at alternate routes, have different traffic demands.
基金supported by the Federal Highway Administration Exploratory Advanced Research Project(Contract#DTFH61-11-H-00015,“VASTO-Evolutionary Agent System for Transportation Outlook”)。
文摘An active transportation and demand management framework focusing on tradable mobility credits(TMC)is integrated into an agent-based modeling and simulation(ABMS)platform.In this framework,it is conceived that an auction market within which mobility credits can be transferred between buyers and sellers is constructed in general.The idea of ABMS is extensively incorporated to mimic system users’daily route choices as well as market-related micro-economical decision making process under TMC circumstance.Users are able to form individual propensities towards available bid/ask choices by reinforcement learning principles.The integrated platform offers a brand new insight view of microscopic aspect of the daily operations of credit transfer market,which has hardly been obtained by prior analytical models.Day-to-day traffic dynamics and market dynamics can be captured.Besides,market MOEs,including convergence,stability,efficiency and relative market powers of buyers and sellers under different market policies are investigated.
文摘访问控制是应用系统中的重要问题之一。传统的基于角色的访问控制(RBAC)方案需要预先定义和同步用户-角色赋值关系,这会带来管理成本和同步开销,并且限制了应用系统的灵活性和动态性。文章提出一种基于策略的动态角色分配模型(Policy-based Dynamic Role Assignment Model——PDRA),它无需同步用户就可以自定义角色,并通过策略匹配的方式实现动态分配。模型完全兼容RBAC,可以成为RBAC良好的扩展机制。文章给出了模型的定义和算法,评估了模型的性能,并在华东师范大学的数据治理平台中进行了应用,验证了该方案的可行性和有效性。
文摘传统电动汽车充电负荷建模通常采用对电动汽车个体进行抽样模拟的方式,未能从分析机理的角度描述电动汽车群体相互作用形成的宏观运行状态。为此,提出一种基于半动态交通均衡模型和组合荷电状态(combined states of the charge,CSOC)概率计算的电动汽车充电负荷概率分布计算方法。首先,分析电动汽车的交通特性和充电特性,并提出一种可行路径集构建方法;然后,引入交通均衡理论进行电动汽车空间分布建模,建立考虑随机效用的半动态交通均衡模型,实现宏观交通流均衡分配。进一步地,从理论层面分析电动汽车群的荷电状态变化,建立基于CSOC的充电负荷概率分布计算模型。最后,分别在13节点路网和实际大路网中验证所提方法的有效性,并分析了电动汽车渗透率和路网结构对充电负荷概率分布的影响。
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.52325210,52131204,and 52302411)the Shanghai Science and Technology Innovation Action Plan Project(No.19DZ1209004)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(No.22120220137).
文摘Through and right-turn shared lanes are widely designed to increase the capacity of through traffic,but they can also cause delays for right-turn vehicles.This study presents a dynamic control method for a shared lane that prioritizes right-turn vehicles at the beginning of the cycle and subsequently allows through traffic to queue in the shared lane for saturated discharge.The traffic wave model is employed to reveal the dynamics of the traffic flow under this control and to derive the relationships among major traffic parameters.Constrained by the major relationship,a linear programming approach to minimize the total queue length is developed to determine the proper values of control parameters,including the shared area length,subordinate signal time lag,and shared or exclusive duration.A sensitivity analysis of the control parameters for different arrival rates and flow ratios is performed.Comparisons are conducted among the dynamic shared lane,the fixed exclusive lane,and the fixed shared lane.The results show that the dynamic control method results in a lower delay for both through and total traffic.
文摘采用遗传算法对动态交通网络平衡微分博弈模型进行求解,将动态混合行为交通网络平衡模型构造为一个开环信息结构下N个局中人非合作非零和博弈,并考虑了一个单OD对之间有两个平行弧的简单网络和两类局中人——用户平衡(UE)和古诺-纳升(C-N)——在拥挤现象中的相互作用,针对此简单网络阐明了遗传算法求解模型的具体步骤。遗传算法求解不必要求目标函数连续可微,大大提高了模型的适用性。通过算例对所设计的算法进行了验证,在算例中将Wie BW(1993)的研究中部分参数取值作了修改,使其更加合乎交通实际,并将计算结果与Wie B W(1993)采用最小值原理计算结果进行了对比分析,通过对比分析表明,其计算结果更符合交通实际。
基金supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.60834001,60974040,61120106009)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(No.2011JBM201)
