A network that is designed to provide an efficient, uninterrupted route and a flexible path for the flow of vehicles are termed as Freeway networks. These networks are very useful in Metropolitan cities where the volume of traffic is extremely heavy. When vehicles reached the highway, depending upon the traffic situations speed of each and every vehicle will be varied. Due to congestion, recurrent and non-recurrent situations of traffic will happen under peak hours as well as other incidents happening on the highway. The major occurrences due to congestion are speed reduction, lengthy travelling time, high fuel consumption and pollution due to vehicle emission. Along with the aforesaid aspects, the probability of occurrences of accidents will be frequent. Generally the solution for avoiding congestion becomes very difficult, because of economic, environmental and urban traffic situations. An integrated control and integrated surveillance strategy has been adopted from 1960 onwards to optimize the traffic conditions. In recent years, a new effective approach to control and manage the freeway traffic is known as metering strategies. This research work provides an evaluation based local ramp metering approach by representing a microscopic simulation, gives the approach of ALINEA on a segment of D-100 freeway in Hyderabad city panjagutta using the microscopic simulator VISSIM combined with MATLAB.
Volume 11 | Issue 6
Pages: 370-378