Adaptive Approaches for Tidal-Flow Lanes in Urban-Road Networks
Every year, traffic congestion costs the global economy billions of dollars in lost productivity, particularly in urban areas. Traffic congestion is a complex problem, as traffic conditions may change at any time. Tidal-flow lanes can be utilised as a feasible traffic-congestion-mitigation strategy...
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| description | Every year, traffic congestion costs the global economy billions of dollars in lost productivity, particularly in urban areas. Traffic congestion is a complex problem, as traffic conditions may change at any time. Tidal-flow lanes can be utilised as a feasible traffic-congestion-mitigation strategy to balance the fluctuating traffic demands throughout the day. This paper proposes an adaptive-lane-reversal approach for tidal-flow lanes, to decrease the impact of traffic congestion in urban areas. In order to evaluate the adaptive approach under various traffic conditions, several algorithms and parameter sets are examined, using various network models and traffic demands. As a result, the total travel time of the vehicles in the various networks was decreased by up to 81%. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-8691878bdda54c6aa09b4003182d17f82023-11-23T16:20:54ZengMDPI AGFuture Transportation2673-75902022-06-012356758810.3390/futuretransp2030031Adaptive Approaches for Tidal-Flow Lanes in Urban-Road NetworksSören Striewski0Ingo Thomsen1Sven Tomforde2Intelligent Systems Group, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, 24118 Kiel, GermanyIntelligent Systems Group, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, 24118 Kiel, GermanyIntelligent Systems Group, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, 24118 Kiel, GermanyEvery year, traffic congestion costs the global economy billions of dollars in lost productivity, particularly in urban areas. Traffic congestion is a complex problem, as traffic conditions may change at any time. Tidal-flow lanes can be utilised as a feasible traffic-congestion-mitigation strategy to balance the fluctuating traffic demands throughout the day. This paper proposes an adaptive-lane-reversal approach for tidal-flow lanes, to decrease the impact of traffic congestion in urban areas. In order to evaluate the adaptive approach under various traffic conditions, several algorithms and parameter sets are examined, using various network models and traffic demands. As a result, the total travel time of the vehicles in the various networks was decreased by up to 81%.https://www.mdpi.com/2673-7590/2/3/31tidal-flow lanestraffic-congestion mitigationtraffic management |
| spellingShingle | Sören Striewski Ingo Thomsen Sven Tomforde Adaptive Approaches for Tidal-Flow Lanes in Urban-Road Networks Future Transportation tidal-flow lanes traffic-congestion mitigation traffic management |
| title | Adaptive Approaches for Tidal-Flow Lanes in Urban-Road Networks |
| title_full | Adaptive Approaches for Tidal-Flow Lanes in Urban-Road Networks |
| title_fullStr | Adaptive Approaches for Tidal-Flow Lanes in Urban-Road Networks |
| title_full_unstemmed | Adaptive Approaches for Tidal-Flow Lanes in Urban-Road Networks |
| title_short | Adaptive Approaches for Tidal-Flow Lanes in Urban-Road Networks |
| title_sort | adaptive approaches for tidal flow lanes in urban road networks |
| topic | tidal-flow lanes traffic-congestion mitigation traffic management |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2673-7590/2/3/31 |
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