TY - JOUR
T1 - A cordon-based reservation system for urban traffic management
AU - Chen, Yinghao
AU - Song, Xiaopeng
AU - Cheng, Qixiu
AU - An, Qinhe
AU - Zhang, Yuan
N1 - Funding Information:
This study is supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (No. 2018YFB1600900 ), the General Project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 71771050 ) and the Department of Science and Technology of Zhejiang Province, China (No. 2020C01057 ). All authors reviewed the results and approved the final version of the manuscript.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2021/11/15
Y1 - 2021/11/15
N2 - This paper builds a novel framework for the cordon-based road reservation system to manage road traffic in urban areas, and the rules of reserving the right of way are established. Both the simulation experiment and the analytical modeling approaches offer evidence that the reservation system performs better than the basic system and some types of pricing systems. Considering two different types of vehicles (i.e., reserved and unreserved vehicles) and a general link cost function, we conduct three types of experiment simulations, including the basic system, the reservation system, and the pricing system. Although the severity of traffic congestion is mitigated inside the cordon both in the reservation and pricing systems, the reservation system shows the best network performance from the traffic indicators provided by the simulation software. In the analytical modeling approach, the Frank–Wolfe algorithm with a modified Bureau of Public Road function is used to analyze the road reservation scheme, and results agree with the expected effectiveness of the reservation both in the aspect of the total system travel time and the equilibrium of the traffic flow in the road network. Finally, practical issues about the application of the road reservation system are discussed.
AB - This paper builds a novel framework for the cordon-based road reservation system to manage road traffic in urban areas, and the rules of reserving the right of way are established. Both the simulation experiment and the analytical modeling approaches offer evidence that the reservation system performs better than the basic system and some types of pricing systems. Considering two different types of vehicles (i.e., reserved and unreserved vehicles) and a general link cost function, we conduct three types of experiment simulations, including the basic system, the reservation system, and the pricing system. Although the severity of traffic congestion is mitigated inside the cordon both in the reservation and pricing systems, the reservation system shows the best network performance from the traffic indicators provided by the simulation software. In the analytical modeling approach, the Frank–Wolfe algorithm with a modified Bureau of Public Road function is used to analyze the road reservation scheme, and results agree with the expected effectiveness of the reservation both in the aspect of the total system travel time and the equilibrium of the traffic flow in the road network. Finally, practical issues about the application of the road reservation system are discussed.
KW - Analytical modeling
KW - Road reservation system
KW - Simulation
KW - Traffic management
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U2 - 10.1016/j.physa.2021.126276
DO - 10.1016/j.physa.2021.126276
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85111183703
SN - 0378-4371
VL - 582
JO - Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
JF - Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
M1 - 126276
ER -