A Study of Signal Timing Control Based on the Collaborative Strategy of Road Green Wave Effect and Path Selection Entropy

Abstract

With the growth of urban road traffic volume and the increase of road network density, correlation between adjacent road intersections is becoming more and more obvious. An intersection traffic signal adjustment tends to affect the smooth traffic flow of a number of adjacent intersections. Its congestion may gradually spread to a few blocks and regions all around the intersection. Therefore, increasingly high demands for urban traffic signal control make a variety of advanced control technology integrated, so as to adjust the intersection control parameter and accordingly achieve a dynamic coordination control over the city traffic. Hopefully, it can satisfy traffic demands and achieve a new dynamic balance between road traffic and transport demand. This paper focuses on the signal timing control over green time extension at adjacent intersections of trunk road by using the collaborative strategy of road green wave effect and path selection entropy, in order to solve the problem of coupling between adjacent intersections, so as to realize the signal coordination control on trunk road. This algorithm makes Signal Timing more flexible.