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Title
A Strategy for Improved Traffic Flow
Description
Commuting is a significant cost in time and in travel expenses for working individuals and a major contributor to emissions in the United States. This project focuses on increasing the efficiency of an intersection through the use of "light metering." Light metering involves a series of lights leading up to an intersection forcing cars to stop further away from the final intersection in smaller queues instead of congregating in a large queue before the final intersection. The simulation software package AnyLogic was used to model a simple two-lane intersection with and without light metering. It was found that light metering almost eliminates start-up delay by preventing a long queue to form in front of the modeled intersection. Shorter queue lengths and reduction in the start-up delays prevents cycle failure and significantly reduces the overall delay for the intersection. However, frequent deceleration and acceleration for a few of the cars occurs before each light meter. This solution significantly reduces the traffic density before the intersection and the overall delay but does not appear to be a better emission alternative due to an increase in acceleration. Further research would need to quantify the difference in emissions for this model compared to a standard intersection.
Date Created
2018-05
Contributors
- Glavin, Erin (Author)
- Pavlic, Theodore (Thesis director)
- Sefair, Jorge (Committee member)
- Industrial, Systems and Operations Engineering Program (Contributor)
- Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor)
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Extent
26 pages
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Copyright Statement
In Copyright
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Series
Academic Year 2017-2018
Handle
https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.47627
Level of coding
minimal
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System Created
- 2018-04-06 12:00:04
System Modified
- 2021-07-15 10:18:27
- 2 years 9 months ago
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