Traffic flow through multi-lane tollbooths on a toll highway

Komada, Kazuhito; Nagatani, Takashi

doi:10.1016/j.physa.2010.01.041

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“…. , G(x n s )) T , 1 is the n s × 1 unit column, and Ψ is the estimated correlation matrix and is diagonally symmetric where [1] (T l ) [2] (T l ) [3] Figure 10: e rolling horizon approach.…”

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“…Nevertheless, various studies have evaluated and proposed strategies to improve the operation of the highway toll collection system, which is similar to the parking fee collection system. e operation is described with the dynamic traffic states [1][2][3] or queue evolution [4][5][6][7]. After the introduction of Electronic Toll Collection (ETC) system, research efforts have been made to appropriately allocate the ETC and manual toll collection (MTC) tollbooths [8][9][10][11].…”

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Simulation-Based Optimization for the Operation of Toll Plaza at Car Park Exit with Mixed Types of Tollbooths and Waiting-Time-Dependent Service

Wang

et al. 2021

Journal of Advanced Transportation

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This study presents an approach of simulation-based optimization to the operation of the toll plaza at the car park exit. We first propose a simulation model, as the representation of the queueing system for the toll plaza with mixed-type customers and servers where the service time is dependent on the waiting time of customer. Then, a simulation-based integer programming model is developed to design more traffic-efficient yet cost-effective operation schemes. It is decomposed by a rolling horizon approach into subproblems which are all solved via the Kriging metamodel algorithm. A numerical example is presented to illustrate the model and offer insight on how to achieve traffic efficiency and cost-effectiveness.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Simulation-Based Optimization for the Operation of Toll Plaza at Car Park Exit with Mixed Types of Tollbooths and Waiting-Time-Dependent Service

Wang

et al. 2021

Journal of Advanced Transportation

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“…For the queuing on freeways, Komada et al pointed out that the traffic state varies with increasing traffic density and the number of toll gates. Moreover, when vehicles drive into manual collection toll booths, the queues will occur if the traffic density reaches its critical value [16].…”

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Improved Manpower Planning Based on Traffic Flow Forecast Using a Historical Queuing Model

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In order to promote travel safety and efficiency, many management staff are engaged to provide service to avoid long queues. Those manpower demands unavoidably introduce overstaffing, which is a great waste during off-peak period. However, it is not easy to precisely forecast the traffic flow to better arrange road management manpower and eliminate queuing phenomenon. In this paper, vehicle flow is first predicted with high accuracy based on the historical multi-source traffic data. The traffic data are collected for one month to establish a forecasting model. The forecasted traffic flow is tested on the following week and shows that the hourly traffic flow can be predicted in high accuracy. Improved manpower planning strategy is proposed based on the predicted results for arranging working schedule correspondingly. The proposed method is tested on a randomly selected toll gate in a real scenario as an example. A manpower planning strategy is verified with scheduled number of operating toll lanes. The improved manpower planning shows that the proposed method effectively reduces manpower by 40% at the toll gate and saves 67.5 working hours in one week compared with the current schedule. The successful application of the manpower planning method can be extended to other toll gates and service plazas to save manpower for more efficient and intelligent operation manner. INDEX TERMS Manpower planning, toll gate, forecast, traffic flow, queuing model.

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“…In manual systems, vehicles stop at a tollgate to pay an attendant (e.g., the National Highway-5 toll system, India). Drawbacks such as long vehicle queues at toll stations at peak hours (Komada and Nagatani, 2010), high operating cost, and extensive space requirements for physical infrastructure, provide incentives to improve toll collection technology. A moderate application of technology reduces the need for human attendants (e.g., coin baskets for cash payments and a contact-less card reader for card holders are both used on the Clifton Suspension Bridge, UK 3 ), but the principle drawback of traffic delay remains as vehicles must slow down substantially.…”

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Achieving genuinely dynamic road user charging: issues with a GNSS-based approach

Velaga

Pangbourne

2014

Journal of Transport Geography

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Traffic flow through multi-lane tollbooths on a toll highway

Cited by 32 publications

References 35 publications

Simulation-Based Optimization for the Operation of Toll Plaza at Car Park Exit with Mixed Types of Tollbooths and Waiting-Time-Dependent Service

Simulation-Based Optimization for the Operation of Toll Plaza at Car Park Exit with Mixed Types of Tollbooths and Waiting-Time-Dependent Service

Improved Manpower Planning Based on Traffic Flow Forecast Using a Historical Queuing Model

Achieving genuinely dynamic road user charging: issues with a GNSS-based approach

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