Sonia Martínez
Jacobs Faculty Scholar
Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
A cycle-free coordinated traffic intersection policy using time-inconsistent wait-time functions
Evan Gravelle and Sonia MartÃnez
Proceedings of the 1st IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications, Maui, HW, USA, August 2017 MN, USA, August 2017
Abstract:
Sensing and computing capabilities of modern traffic intersections have greatly improved in recent years, but current control policies do not fully utilize these capabilities. In this paper, we present a novel intersection control algorithm based on an objective function that accounts for drivers' time preferences. In particular, the intersection places greater importance on a vehicle which has been waiting at an intersection over one that just arrived. Coordination between intersections is achieved through added a term to the objective function using the green wave idea. Under this policy and a macroscopic dynamical model, we provide a sufficient condition for the controller to maintain uniformly bounded weighted queues at an intersection given sufficiently small spawn rates. We test our algorithm and results extensively in a realistic microscopic simulation, through measuring queue stability and various performance metrics.
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Bib-tex entry:
@InProceedings{EG-SM:17-ccta},
author = {E. Gravelle and
S. Mart{\'\i}nez},
booktitle = {IEEE Conference on Control
Technology and Applications},
title = {A cycle-free coordinated traffic intersection policy using
time-inconsistent wait-time functions},
pages = {363--368},
month = {August},
year = {2017},
address ={Maui, HW}
}