• 한국항만학회지
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.333-350
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• 1999

Today freeway is thought to be a very important transportation facility carrying tremendous traffic flow as the main corridor within the area of between the areas. However freeway is experiencing severe congestion and accidents by increased entrance ramp flow especially at peak time period. Ramp meters on the freeway entrance ramps that supply traffic to the freeway in a measured or appropriately regulated amount are needed for alleviating freeway congestion. Because ramp meters can be operated to discharge traffic at a measured or regulated rate thus maintaining more uniform speed on the mainline section maximizing the throughput to the freeway within the capacity of a downstream bottleneck and reducing the congestion related accidents. Thus the objectives in this study were to analyze the traffic characteristics on the freeway I-94 with ramp metering system before/after ITS technology in Detroit (Michigan) area compare shifts of the traffic characteristics on the freeway I-94 before/after ITS technology and finally suggest a better ramp metering strategy for the freeway system The following results were obtained: i)Flow occupancies and speeds on the mainline merge section of freeway were shown to be a big difference depending on the peak periods areas and directions based on the distribution of traffic flow characteristics on the freeway. ii)Reduced speed was shown to be more than 5 mph and ramp flow was also shown to be more than 240 vph at peak periods if there was the ramp metering system constructed on the freeway. iii)Ramp metering system was shown to be optimally operated on the freeway if ramp flow could be maximized within the range of over 900 vph and reduced occupancy could be also maximized by no more than 2 percent at peak periods. iv)The average flows on the freeway after the ITS technology were shown to be a decrease of over 20% depending on the peak periods areas and directions when compared with those flow on the freeway before the ITS technology. over 20% depending on the peak periods areas and directions when compared with those speeds on the freeway before the ITS technology. vi)The average metering rates on the freeway after the ITS technology were shown to be an increase of over 10% depending on the peak periods areas and directions when compared with those metering rates on the freeway before the ITS technology.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제14권5호
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• pp.84-92
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• 2006

Freeway Corridors consist of urban freeways and parallel arterials that drivers can use alternatively. Ramp metering in freeways and signal control in arterials are contemporary traffic control methods that have been developed and applied in order to improve traffic conditions of freeway corridors. However, most of the existing studies have focused on either optimal ramp metering in freeways, or progression signal strategies between arterial intersections. There have been no traffic control systems in Korea that integrates the freeway ramp metering and arterial signal control. The effective control strategies for freeway operations may cause negative effects on arterial traffic. On the other hand, traffic congestion and bottleneck phenomenon of arterials due to the increasing peak-hour travel demand and ineffective signal operation may generate an accessibility problem to freeway ramps. Thus, the main function of the freeway which is the through-traffic process has not been successful. The purpose of this study is to develop an integrated control model that connects freeway ramp metering systems and signal control systems in arterial intersections. And Optimization of integrated control model which consists of ramp metering and signal control is another purpose. Optimization results are verified by comparison with the results from MATDYMO.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.8-15
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• 2007

Freeway corridors consist of urban freeways and parallel arterials that drivers can use alternatively. Ramp metering in freeways and signal control in arterials are contemporary traffic control methods that have been developed and applied in order to improve traffic conditions of freeway corridors. However, most of the existing studies have focused on either optimal ramp metering in freeways, or progression signal strategies between arterial intersections. There have been no traffic control systems in Korea that integrates the freeway ramp metering and arterial signal control. The effective control strategies for freeway operations may cause negative effects on arterial traffic. On the other hand, traffic congestion and bottleneck phenomenon of arterials due to the increasing peak-hour travel demand and ineffective signal operation may generate an accessibility problem to freeway ramps. Thus, the main function of the freeway which is the through-traffic process has not been successful. The purpose of this study is to develop an integrated control model that connects freeway ramp metering systems and signal control systems in arterial intersections. And Optimization of integrated control model which consists of ramp metering and signal control is another purpose. The design of experiment, neural network, and simulated annealing are used for optimization.

• 대한교통학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한교통학회 1998년도 Proceedings The 4th International Transport Symposium
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• pp.152-159
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• 1998

This paper presents a method evaluating benefits of ramp metering strategies on freeway safety. Based on the traffic and the accident data collected on a 4.2 km (2.6 mile) section of Interstate highway 35-West in Minneapolis, U.S.A., the relationship between traffic variables and safety measures is investigated. An aggregate specification that could be used to predict accident frequencies on freeways is proposed as a multiple regression form. The specification includes 15 minutes volume and occupancy data, which are commonly available from surveillance and control systems. The primary variables that appear to affect the frequencies of freeway accident are: vehicle-miles of travel, entrance ramp volumes and the dynamic effect of queue building. A simulation method evaluating the dynamic effect of control strategies on safety is proposed next. The potential benefits of freeway ramp metering on freeway safety are finally investigated via a proposed method.

• 대한교통학회지
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.117-132
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• 1995

Peak-period congestion is a frequent occurrence on many freeways. Entrance-metering is an effective strategey in improving urban freeway traffic condition. This paper describes the prodecure to develop a computer program for proparing optimum ramp-metering stategies. Four existing ramp-metering optimaization models wer reviewed and evaluated in regared to their theories and actural performances. A optimization model was proposed in this paper. Final model takes aform of quadratic programming. The performance of the propeosed model wastest using FREFLO.

• 정보과학회 컴퓨팅의 실제 논문지
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• 제21권3호
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• pp.223-238
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• 2015

램프 미터링은 램프로부터 도로에 진입하는 차량을 통제 함으로써 교통 상황을 향상 시키는 직접적이고 효과적인 방법이다. 본 논문에서는 밀도 데이터를 이용한 새로운 램프 미터링 방법을 제안한다. 교통량을 사용하는 기존 방법은 낮은 신뢰도의 데이터에 의해 동작 되며 다양한 문제를 가질 수 있다. 또한 주 도로에 정체가 발생 했을 때 램프의 추가적인 교통 정체 및 램프의 용량초과 문제가 발생 할 수 있다. 기존 방법에 대한 문제를 해결 하기 위해 제안하는 방법은 밀도와 가속도 데이터를 이용한 새로운 램프 미터링 방법을 제안한다. 실험을 위해 미네소타 주 트윈시티의 TH-62의 고속 국도를 선택하였고 효율성을 테스트 하기 위해 미네소타 주에서 동작하고 있는 Stratified Zone Metering(SZM)과 비교 실험을 진행한다. 실험 환경은 PTV사의 VISSIM 시뮬레이터를 이용하였고 이를 제어할 수 있는 도로 제어 및 평가 시스템(TICAS)을 개발 하여 시뮬레이션을 진행 하였다. 실험 조건은 정체가 가장 심한 2011년 10월 25일 오후 2시부터 오후 7시까지로 설정한다. 실험 결과 도로의 총 여행시간과 정체구간은 SZM보다 20% 감소 하였다. 또한 각 램프의 대기 열 길이를 측정한 결과 SZM에서 발생하던 램프의 길이를 초과하는 문제점이 해결된 것을 확인할 수 있었다.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제65권12호
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• pp.2046-2052
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• 2016

Ramp metering is one of the most efficient and widely used control methods for an intelligent transportation management system on a freeway. Its objective is to control and upgrade freeway traffic by regulating the number of vehicles entering the freeway entrance ramp, in such a way that not only the alleviation of the congestion but also the smoothing of the traffic flow around the desired density level can be achieved for the maintenance of the maximum mainline throughput. When the cycle of the signal detection is larger than that of the system process, the density tracking problem needs to be considered in the form of the discrete-time system. Therefore, a discrete-time sliding mode control method is proposed for the ramp metering problem in the presence of both input constraint in the on-ramp and exogenous disturbance in the off-ramp considering the random behavior of the driver. Simulations were performed using a validated second-order macroscopic traffic flow model in Matlab environment and the simulation results indicate that proposed control method can achieve better performance than previously well-known ALINEA strategy in the sense that mainstream flow throughput is maximized and congestion is alleviated even in the presence of input constraint and exogenous disturbance.

• 대한교통학회지
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.59-69
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• 1999

도시고속도로축은 도시고속도로와 운전자가 대체도로로 이용할 수 있는 인접도로로 구성된 가로망을 말한다. 고속도로에서 사고나 극심한 혼잡으로 인해 지체가 생길 경우 단순히 진입램프에서 램프미터링만을 실행하는 것이 아니라 인접도로로의 경로전환을 통해 도시고속도로축의 효율을 극대화할 수 있다. 이는 지능형교통체계(ITS)에서 고려하고 있는 경로안내시스템과도 결부된다. 그러므로, 도시고속도로측에서는 진입램프에서의 램프미터링전략과 진출램프에서의 경로전환전략, 인접도로에서의 신호최적화전략을 통한 제어를 실행할 수 있다. 그러나, 이를 통합한 제어전략은 아직 고려되고 있지 못하다. 따라서, 본 연구에서는 도시고속도로에서의 진입 램프미터링과 진출램프를 통한 경로전환, 인접도로에서의 신호시간조정을 통합한 제어모형을 구축하였으며 통합제어모형은 적정 제어변수의 값을 구하기 용이하게 하기 위해 선형 형태로 구성하였다. 본 통합제어모형은 기존의 선형계획법을 이용하여 제어변수의 값을 쉽게 구할 수 있으며, MPL(버젼 4.0)을 이용하여 문제를 풀었다. 또한, 시뮬레이션(TSIS 4.01)을 통해 통합제어모형과 알고리즘의 우수성을 검증하였다.

• 한국ITS학회 논문지
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.9-21
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• 2011

첨두시 고속도로의 혼잡이 심각할 경우 수요와 용량을 조절하는 운영방안이 필요하다. 고속도로의 연결로에서 본선으로 진입하는 교통류가 본선의 용량을 초과하지 않도록 진입제어 시스템을 이용하여 혼잡을 감소시키고, 안전성을 증진시킬 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 램프부에 위치한 차량들을 본선의 교통상황을 고려하여 진입시키는 진입제어 전략을 보다 효과적으로 운영하기 위한 방안으로 진입제어 실시영역에 대하여 연구하였다. 본선의 교통상황에 따라 진입제어를 실시하거나 미실시하는 교통영역이 존재할 것이라 판단하고, 제어 불필요 제어 필요 제어 최소화 등으로 교통량 수준에 따라 진입 제어 전략이 운영될 수 있는 교통상황 영역을 도출하였다. 이를 위해 고속도로 본선 및 램프부의 교통량에 따라 시나리오를 수립하고 널리 이용되고 있는 진입제어 알고리즘 중의 하나인 ALINEA를 미시적 교통류 시뮬레이터에서 구현하여 모의실험을 수행하였다. 밀도와 평균속도를 효과척도로 하여 본선교통량과 본선으로 투입되는 교통량에 따라 진입제어를 운영해야하는 적정 교통수요 영역을 도출하였다. 분석결과, 본선의 교통량이 많아질수록 밀도는 감소하는 경향을 보이며 감소폭도 크게 산출되었다. 또한, 평균속도는 진입제어를 운영하는 것이 15%의 개선효과를 보였으며, 본선교통량 이 3000~5000대/시이고 진입교통량이 700~900대/시일 때 통행속도의 증가폭이 크게 나타났다. 본 연구에서 도출된 교통수요 영역은 적정 진입제어 영역으로 볼 수 있으며 이에 따라 본선으로 진입하는 교통류를 제어할 경우 밀도와 평균속도 측면에서 유의미한 효과가 있을 것으로 판단된다.

• 한국도로학회논문집
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.111-118
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• 2014

PURPOSES : This study performs fundamental research on ramp-metering design criteria. METHODS : We carefully review previous studies in terms of ramp-metering design criteria and then consider applicability in Korea. For this, traffic simulation model is employed to analyze actual effect according to specific location of stop-line when implementing ramp-metering. RESULTS : When a stop-line moving forward with a 50m interval, travel speed at mainline relative to current stop-line location tends to decrease. However, traveling speed at approach roads increase about 5~18% under the same condition. When a stop-line location moving backward with a 50m interval, mainline travel speed increase approximately 17~32% whereas traveling speed at approach roads decrease. All cases are compared with the current stop-line location. CONCLUSIONS : We believe that both cases are useful with respect to freeway management. For example, moving forward a stop-line case can be used management for queuing area at ramp section and approach roads. Moving backward a stop-line case can be used for traffic control, focusing on mainline of freeways.