Priority pass

Signal control with focus on needs


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2024-05

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Conference Paper

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Abstract

Signalized intersection management is typically designed with a focus on transportation efficiency metrics such as throughput, queue length and average delay time, to the neglect of vehicle-specific urgencies. This conceptual work proposes a Priority Pass for urban networks as a feasible, economic instrument to expedite entitled vehicles at auction-controlled signalized intersections using movement-phase bidders. The interplay of transportation and economic efficiency at intersections with varying saturation, symmetry, and entitlement is analyzed. The value of the concept is robustly demonstrated for a wide range of scenarios. The Priority Pass creates significant benefits for entitled vehicles without causing arbitrary delays for not-entitled vehicles or de trop worsening transportation efficiency. What’s more, no significant conflict between transportation and economic efficiency was found in the given setup.

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STRC

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24th Swiss Transport Research Conference (STRC 2024)

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Transport and society; Traffic engineering; Transport economics; Signalized intersection control; Auctions; Value of time (VOT)

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08686 - Gruppe Strassenverkehrstechnik check_circle
02655 - Netzwerk Stadt u. Landschaft ARCH u BAUG / Network City and Landscape ARCH and BAUG

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Conference lecture held on May 17, 2024.

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