吉林大学学报(工学版) ›› 2013, Vol. 43 ›› Issue (05): 1204-1209.doi: 10.7964/jdxbgxb201305009

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Evaluation of impact variable speed limits on improving traffic efficiency on freeways

LI Zhi-bin1, JIN Mao-jing2, LIU Pan1, XU Cheng-cheng1   

  1. 1. School of Transportation, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China;
    2. High Technology Research and Development Center of Ministry of Science and Technology, Beijing 100044, China
  • Received:2012-02-07 Online:2013-09-01 Published:2013-09-01

Abstract:

To reduce vehicle delay at recurrent bottlenecks on freeways, this study aims to develop a control strategy of Variable Speed Limits (VSL) to improve the traffic efficiency near bottlenecks. First, the relationship between the capacity drop and traffic efficiency was analyzed. Then a control strategy of VSL that aims to prevent the capacity drop was proposed. The implementation of VSL at several different bottlenecks and the expected effects were discussed. The proposed strategy was evaluated for a merging bottleneck via simulation. The results show that the total travel time was reduced by 25.5% by the VSL, and the total delay was reduced by 56.1%. The traffic efficiency in the vicinity of recurrent bottleneck was improved by this VSL control strategy.

Key words: engineering of communications and transportation system, traffic efficiency, variable speed limit, control strategy, bottleneck

CLC Number: 

  • U491.4

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