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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Isolated Traffic Signal Optimization Considering Delay, Energy, and Environmental Impacts

Calle Laguna, Alvaro Jesus 10 January 2017 (has links)
Traffic signal cycle lengths are traditionally optimized to minimize vehicle delay at intersections using the Webster formulation. This thesis includes two studies that develop new formulations to compute the optimum cycle length of isolated intersections, considering measures of effectiveness such as vehicle delay, fuel consumption and tailpipe emissions. Additionally, both studies validate the Webster model against simulated data. The microscopic simulation software, INTEGRATION, was used to simulate two-phase and four-phase isolated intersections over a range of cycle lengths, traffic demand levels, and signal timing lost times. Intersection delay, fuel consumption levels, and emissions of hydrocarbon (HC), carbon monoxide (CO), oxides of nitrogen (NOx), and carbon dioxide (CO2) were derived from the simulation software. The cycle lengths that minimized the various measures of effectiveness were then used to develop the proposed formulations. The first research effort entailed recalibrating the Webster model to the simulated data to develop a new delay, fuel consumption, and emissions formulation. However, an additional intercept was incorporated to the new formulations to enhance the Webster model. The second research effort entailed updating the proposed model against four study intersections. To account for the stochastic and random nature of traffic, the simulations were then run with twenty random seeds per scenario. Both efforts noted its estimated cycle lengths to minimize fuel consumption and emissions were longer than cycle lengths optimized for vehicle delay only. Secondly, the simulation results manifested an overestimation in optimum cycle lengths derived from the Webster model for high vehicle demands. / Master of Science / Traffic signal timings are traditionally designed to reduce vehicle congestion at an intersection. This thesis is based on two studies that develop new formulations to compute the most efficient signal cycle lengths of intersections, considering vehicle fuel consumption and tailpipe emissions. Additionally, both studies validate the Webster model, a model that is traditionally used in traffic signal design. Simulations were run to determine the intersection delay, fuel consumption levels, and emissions of hydrocarbon (HC), carbon monoxide (CO), oxides of nitrogen (NO<sub>x</sub>), and carbon dioxide (CO<sub>2</sub>) of the study intersections. To account for the random nature of traffic, each simulation scenario was run twenty different times. The cycle lengths that minimized the noted simulation outputs were then used to develop the proposed formulations. The new formulations demonstrated its estimated cycle lengths to minimize fuel consumption and emissions were longer than cycle lengths designed to minimize vehicle congestion. Secondly, the simulation results manifested an overestimation in optimum cycle lengths derived from the Webster model for high vehicle traffic.

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