Improvement ramp metering
Ramp metering an important traffic management measure in The Netherlands. Around the big cities a lot of ramp metering systems have been installed to improve the traffic flow on the motorways, by controlling the flow on on-ramps by means of a traffic light. Normally, ramp metering has a positive effect on the traffic flow on the motorway and a negative effect on the traffic on the on-rmap. For the control process a standard algorithm is used, but also a number of other algorithms are possible. Therefore, the research question is: can these ramp metering algorithms be improved? And what are the impacts of these improved algorithms?
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Finished reports
- Alternatieve Routes A15 Maasvlakte-Vaanplein
- Concept Design and Evaluation of Traffic Management in Beijing
- Empirical Investigation of Strategy-Based Lane Change Choice
- Datafusie van detectielusgegevens en reistijdmetingen
- Design of a Subnetwork Controller Based on MFD’s and Perimeter Flows
- Integrated Approach to Variable Speed Limits and Ramp Metering
- Coordination of Ramp Metering Control in Motorway Networks
- Design of an urban traffic controller that incorporates route advice given by in-vehicle navigation systems
- Veiligheid en doorstroming rond incidenten
- Route Guidance and Signal Control Based on the Back-Pressure Algorithm
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Projects in progress
Finished projects
- Dynamic OD matrix estimation using floating car data
- Possibilities of video monitoring
- Incident detection with loop data
- FastLane: modelling and simulation of traffic flow
- Alternative routes A15 Maasvlakte - Vaanplein
- Bottlenecks in road networks due to incidents
- Data fusion of loop detection and travel time measurements
- The relation between traffic flow and lane width
- Real-time capacity estimation for adaptive ramp metering
- Traffic flow and safety during incidents