On the Potential Impacts of Smart Traffic Control for Delay, Fuel Energy Consumption, and Emissions: An NSGA-II-Based Optimization Case Study from Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
| Autor: | Mohammed Al-Turki, Arshad Jamal, Muhammad Zahid, Mohammed A. Al-Sughaiyer, Hassan M. Al-Ahmadi |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Operations research
Computer science traffic engineering NSGA-II Geography Planning and Development lcsh:TJ807-830 lcsh:Renewable energy sources 02 engineering and technology Management Monitoring Policy and Law MOEs Synchro Range (aeronautics) 0502 economics and business 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering signalized intersections lcsh:Environmental sciences lcsh:GE1-350 050210 logistics & transportation Renewable Energy Sustainability and the Environment business.industry lcsh:Environmental effects of industries and plants congestion 05 social sciences Energy consumption Signal timing lcsh:TD194-195 Traffic engineering Fuel efficiency 020201 artificial intelligence & image processing business optimization |
| Zdroj: | Sustainability Volume 12 Issue 18 Sustainability, Vol 12, Iss 7394, p 7394 (2020) |
| ISSN: | 2071-1050 |
| DOI: | 10.3390/su12187394 |
| Popis: | Intelligent traffic control at urban intersections is vital to ensure efficient and sustainable traffic operations. Urban road intersections are hotspots of congestion and traffic accidents. Poor traffic management at these locations could cause numerous issues, such as longer travel time, low travel speed, long vehicle queues, delays, increased fuel consumption, and environmental emissions, and so forth. Previous studies have shown that the mentioned traffic performance measures or measures of effectiveness (MOEs) could be significantly improved by adopting intelligent traffic control protocols. The majority of studies in this regard have focused on mono or bi-objective optimization with homogenous and lane-based traffic conditions. However, decision-makers often have to deal with multiple conflicting objectives to find an optimal solution under heterogeneous stochastic traffic conditions. Therefore, it is essential to determine the optimum decision plan that offers the least conflict among several objectives. Hence, the current study aimed to develop a multi-objective intelligent traffic control protocol based on the non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm II (NSGA-II) at isolated signalized intersections in the city of Dhahran, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The MOEs (optimization objectives) that were considered included average vehicle delay, the total number of vehicle stops, average fuel consumption, and vehicular emissions. NSGA-II simulations were run with different initial populations. The study results showed that the proposed method was effective in optimizing considered performance measures along the optimal Pareto front. MOEs were improved in the range of 16% to 23% compared to existing conditions. To assess the efficacy of the proposed approach, an optimization analysis was performed using a Synchro traffic light simulation and optimization tool. Although the Synchro optimization resulted in a relatively lower signal timing plan than NSGA-II, the proposed algorithm outperformed the Synchro optimization results in terms of percentage reduction in MOE values. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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