List of Figures

• A computer-based simulation laboratory for evaluating dynamic traffic management systems
• Overall design-evaluation framework
• Simulation framework for dynamic traffic management
• Structure of proactive traffic control and routing systems
• Iterative guidance generation and traffic prediction
• Software architecture
• Graphical interface
• Flow chart of the traffic simulation model
• Route choice
• Car following
• Merging area
• Lane changes
• Mandatory state and lane change types
• Probability of tagging vehicles to mandatory state
• Lead and lag gaps for lane changing
• Probability of nosing
• Queue
• A macroscopic view of the CA/T network
• Flow rates measured by traffic sensors
• Animation of vehicle movements
• I-880 north freeway network
• Contour plots of field and simulated speeds and occupancies
• Relationship between speed and occupancy in field data
• Generic structure of dynamic traffic management systems
• Rolling horizon implementation of guidance generation
• Piecewise linear time-variant travel time
• Generation of predictive route guidance
• Traffic signals at an intersection
• Merge and split of traffic cells
• Vehicles and traffic cells
• Comparison of MITSIM and MesoTS output using the I-880N network
• Amsterdam city map
• The A10 network and ``origins/destinations''
• OD flow profile
• Inflow and outflow at each centroid
• Change of average trip travel times
• Speed-density relationship
• Comparison of MesoTS and MITSIM output (without incident)
• Comparison of MesoTS and MITSIM output (with incident)
• Rolling horizon diagram for traffic prediction
• Measure of consistency of candidate route guidance
• Average travel time
• Change in average travel times compared with the base scenario by departure time interval
• Travel time for guided vehicles of representative OD pairs
• Travel time for unguided vehicles of representative OD pairs
• Travel time for guided vehicles of representative OD pairs (with 80% demand)
• Travel time for unguided vehicles of representative OD pairs (with %80 demand)
• A hypothetical network with loops and interchanges