Reference:
S. Liu,
B. De Schutter, and
H. Hellendoorn,
"Multi-class traffic flow and emission control for freeway networks,"
Proceedings of the 16th International IEEE Conference on
Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC 2013), The Hague, The
Netherlands, pp. 2223-2228, Oct. 2013.
Abstract:
Multi-class emission models aim at capturing the heterogeneous nature
of traffic flows. These models are helpful for improving the
efficiency of the reduction of emissions. We develop a macroscopic
emission model that takes into account the multi-class nature of
traffic. This results in a integrated macroscopic multi-class traffic
flow and emission model called the multi-class VT-Macro model. Model
predictive control is adopted to reduce the total time spent and the
total emissions. End point penalties are included in the objective
function, taking into account the different distances to the
destination of different vehicles. A case study based on a benchmark
network is implemented. The simulation results show that better
performance is obtained by using the multi-class VT-macro model and
end point penalties.
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