Optimizing Traffic Signal Timings for Mega Events

Robert Scheffler, Martin Strehler, Marc Herbstritt
2016 Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modeling, Optimization, and Systems  
Most approaches for optimizing traffic signal timings deal with the daily traffic. However, there are a few occasional events like football matches or concerts of musicians that lead to exceptional traffic situations. Still, such events occur more or less regularly and place and time are known in advance. Hence, it is possible to anticipate such events with special signal timings. In this paper, we present an extension of a cyclically time-expanded network flow model and a corresponding
more » ... teger linear programming formulation for simultaneously optimizing traffic signal timings and traffic assignment for such events. Besides the mathematical analysis of this approach, we demonstrate its capabilities by computing signal timings for a real world scenario.
doi:10.4230/oasics.atmos.2016.8 dblp:conf/atmos/SchefflerS16 fatcat:wcszlfwsnvhdnctu3pe4p3vq3y