Traffic & Transportation Engineering

Coordinated Signal Timing Optimization at Closely-Spaced Split Midblock Crosswalks

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  • School of Transportation and Logistics,Dalian University of Technology,Dalian 116024,Liaoning,China
徐洪峰(1978-),男,博士,副教授,主要从事交通组织、管理与控制研究.

Received date: 2015-02-11

  Revised date: 2015-05-02

  Online published: 2015-11-01

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Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(61374193)

Abstract

Crosswalks are a kind of important pedestrian crossing facility. It is proper to implement the simultaneous signalization at integrated crosswalks and the separate signalization at split crosswalks. Regarding isolated split midblock crosswalks,a method to calculate the maximum pedestrian-crossing time is proposed according to the time-space diagram of pedestrian movements. Regarding closely-spaced split midblock crosswalks along an arterial,a coordinated signal timing optimization model is constructed by means of the integer nonlinear programming method according to the time-space diagram of vehicular movements. In the constructed model,the maximum of the maximum pedestrian-crossing time in any crosswalk and in any movement direction is minimized without any negative effect on the two-way green waves for vehicular movements. Case studies indicate that the constructed model is of practical value and can be widely applied.

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Xu Hong-feng He Long Zhang Kun . Coordinated Signal Timing Optimization at Closely-Spaced Split Midblock Crosswalks[J]. Journal of South China University of Technology(Natural Science), 2015 , 43(12) : 106 -113 . DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1000-565X.2015.12.015

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