Real-time queue estimation model development for uninterrupted freeway flow based on shockwave analysis

Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 153-163

  Cao, Jing ^a   Hadiuzzaman, M ^b   Qiu, Tony Z ^c   Hu, Dawei ^a  

^a CHANG'AN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BANGLADESH UNIVERSITY OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY   (Bangladesh)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Active bottleneck; Backwards shockwave; Micro simulation; Queue estimation; Variable speed limit

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; DATA ACQUISITION; DIGITAL STORAGE; FREQUENCY ESTIMATION; HIGHWAY ENGINEERING; HIGHWAY TRAFFIC CONTROL; SPEED CONTROL; TRAFFIC CONTROL;

ACTIVE BOTTLENECK; ACTIVE TRAFFIC MANAGEMENTS; EDMONTON , ALBERTA; HIGHWAY CAPACITY MANUAL; LOOP DETECTOR DATA; MICROSIMULATION; MICROSIMULATION MODELS; VARIABLE SPEED LIMITS;

QUEUEING THEORY;

DATA SET; ESTIMATION METHOD; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; SHOCK WAVE; TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT;

ALBERTA; CANADA; EDMONTON;

EID: 84925331687     PISSN: 03151468     EISSN: 12086029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/cjce-2014-0218     Document Type: Article

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