Improvement of traffic control with MFD through refinement of partitioning traffic networks

Research Project

Project/Area Number	26750126
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
Allocation Type	Multi-year Fund
Research Field	Social systems engineering/Safety system
Research Institution	Tottori University
Principal Investigator	NISHI Ryosuke 鳥取大学, 工学(系)研究科(研究院), 助教 (10727093)
Project Period (FY)	2014-04-01 – 2016-03-31
Project Status	Completed (Fiscal Year 2015)
Budget Amount *help	¥1,820,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥420,000) Fiscal Year 2015: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000) Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Keywords	MFD / 交通 / ネットワーク
Outline of Final Research Achievements	We investigated the influence of structures of road networks on the macroscopic fundamental diagram (MFD) as a fundamental property of MFD by numerical simulations. It is found that flow on networks with coarseness and fineness is lower than the flow on networks without coarseness and fineness. We investigated the rules closing and opening nodes based on the density of them for controlling traffic flows on networks. It is found that free flow phase, dead lock phase, and controlled phase emerge by this rule.

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