Road traffic networks are increasingly being equipped and enhanced with various sensing, communication, and control units, resulting in an increased intelligence in the network and offering additional handles for control. In this chapter we discuss some advanced model-based control methods for intelligent traffic networks. In particular, we consider model predictive control (MPC) of integrated ...

Due to its large size, this document has been segmented into multiple files. All files separate from this main document file are accessible from links (blue type) in the table of contents or the body of the document. Executive Summary Introduction One of the most compelling reasons for investment in Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) services is to realize a reduction in traffic congestion...

In order to decide on advertisement fees for web servers, Naor and Pinkas [15] introduced metering schemes secure against coalition of corrupt servers and clients. In their schemes any server is able to construct a proof to be sent to an audit agency if and only if it has been visited by at least a certain number of clients. After that in series of papers Masucci et. al. [1–3, 13, 14] generaliz...

A real-time smart metering system has strict requirements, since every piece of data gathered from various meters every hour is of importance, and each component consisting of metering infrastructure should be sustainable. Therefore, it is necessary to efficiently manage the meter data set in smart metering networks as well as in a server. Therefore, we propose a dedicated file system, a LIght-...

In Fall 2000, more than 430 ramp meters in the Twin Cities metropolitan area were shut down in order to evaluate the effectiveness of the metering system. This shutdown disturbed normal traffic patterns and thus traffic equilibrium. The purpose of our research is to examine how long it takes to establish a new equilibrium after a shock to the system, and thus establish the basis for how long th...

An on-ramp simulation system that can be used to debug and test the Universal Ramp Metering Software (URMS) is presented. The tool includes a simple car following microscopic traffic model for the on-ramp and a Controller Interface Device (CID), which interfaces a standard personal computer with a 2070 traffic controller. The CID consists of the low cost and commonly available National Instrume...

In this paper we present an integrated traffic management and control approach for Intelligent Vehicle Highway Systems (IVHS). These IVHS consist of interacting roadside controllers and intelligent vehicles that are organized in platoons with short intraplatoon distances, and larger distances between platoons. All vehicles are assumed to be fully automated, i.e., throttle, braking, and steering...

Temporal–spatial resource optimization within the terminal maneuvering area has become an important research direction to meet growing demand for air traffic. Accurate departure flight time prediction from taking off metering fixes is critical management, connecting surface operations, and overhead stream insertion. This paper employs ensemble learning methods (including bagging, boosting, stac...