Supply-Side Management of Auto Traffic

Many traffic signals frequently experience oversaturated conditions. Such conditions cause significant delay and queue backups. When traffic signals are closely spaced, queues from downstream signals can back up to upstream signals. Such a scenario can result in starvation which is a phenomenon when queues from a downstream bottleneck prevent full utilization of upstream green phases This project will entail synchronizing green phases across neighboring traffic signals to the backward waves that propagate through queues. The goal is to ensure that green phases are displayed only after queues recede on street segments downstream. In this way, traffic movements are not blocked when they receive green signals.

• Record URL:
  https://www.cutr.usf.edu/programs-1/nicr/year-one-projects/1-2-supply-side-management-of-auto-traffic/

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Active
• Funding: $162667
• Contract Numbers:

  69A3551947136,

  79070-00-B

  79070-00-C

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology

  University Transportation Centers Program
  Department of Transportation
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Managing Organizations:

  University of South Florida, Tampa

  Center for Urban Transportation Research
  3650 Spectrum Boulevard
  Tampa, FL  United States  33612-9446
• Project Managers:

  Li, Xiaopeng

• Performing Organizations:

  Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI)

  400 Harvey Mitchell Parkway South
  Suite 300
  College Station, TX  United States  77845-4375

  University of California Berkeley

  Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
  416C McLaughlin Hall
  Berkeley, California  United States  94720
• Principal Investigators:

  Sunkari, Srinivasa

  Cassidy, Michael

  Shen, Max

• Start Date: 20200901
• Expected Completion Date: 20210930
• Actual Completion Date: 0
• USDOT Program: University Transportation Centers Program

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Green interval (Traffic signal cycle); Oversaturation (Traffic flow); Traffic delays; Traffic queuing; Traffic signal control systems
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01751329
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: National Institute for Congestion Reduction
• Contract Numbers: 69A3551947136,, 79070-00-B, 79070-00-C
• Files: UTC, RiP
• Created Date: Sep 3 2020 6:56PM