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Traffic model of a Microregion

Authors:Homolová Jitka, Institute of Information Theory and Automation, Czech Republic
Nagy Ivan, Institute of Information Theory and Automation, Czech Republic
Topic:7.4 Transportation Systems
Session:Transportation Systems II
Keywords: traffic microregion, queue length model, Kalman filter

Abstract

This paper introduces a new concept of the state model of one traffic microregion based on a~maximum utilization of information from all measured traffic variables. The aim of the model is to estimate length of queues that are formed on arms of junctions with traffic lights. This task is trivia in case of complete knowledge of all measured traffic quantities for all junction arms. Then the model only counts simply the queue length from input and output intensities. However, the net of all needed detectors is not usually complete and some significant traffic flows (parking cars, etc.) are not measurable in practice. The model estimates the queue length in this case. In the end of the paper,the model and estimation algorithm is tested for several types of disturbances which can arise in reality.