Abstract
Highways tend to get congested because of the increase in the number of cars travelling on them. There are two solutions to this. The first one, which is also expensive, consists in building new highways to support the traffic. A much cheaper alternative consists in the introduction of advanced intelligent traffic control systems to manage traffic and increase the efficiency of the already existing highways. Intelligent lane reservation system for highways (ILRSH) is such a software control system. It is designed to assist and automate the use of a highway lane as a reserved lane. The idea is to allow and support drivers to travel at a speed higher, if in return they are willing to pay a small fee to reserve an empty virtual slot on the reserved lane. This slot is valid for a portion and of the highway and a time window, so each driver pays the fee depending thier its travelling needs. In return, drivers are guaranteed a congestion-free travel on that portion. In this paper, we present the proposed architecture of the ILRSH and its subsystems. The system is based on several proposed algorithms designed to assist the drivers, enter or exit the reserved lane, based on real-world driving observations. We present extensive simulation results showing the feasibility of the proposed approach, that can easily be implemented with little costs on already-existing highways, and the increase in traffic efficiency.
Highlights
Increasing passenger and freight travel led to growing congestions, with negative consequences on wasted energy, time, and money, increased pollution, and threats to safety
In this paper we propose the intelligent lane reservation system for highway(s) system designed to increase the efficiency of already existing highways
The component uses the services provided by an optional reservation policy subsystem, which implements the pricing policy, based for example on estimations of the profit made by the company managing Intelligent lane reservation system for highways (ILRSH)
Summary
Increasing passenger and freight travel led to growing congestions, with negative consequences on wasted energy, time, and money, increased pollution, and threats to safety. The authors describe the idea of using a reserved lane on the highway, together with a possible intelligent traffic control (ITC) system designed to manage it They mention the components of such a system, present the (not so small) problems that have to be solved, and provide several preliminary solutions. Because cars travel at high speeds, we propose components to electronically assist drivers to entry and exit the lane with minimum disruption on already-existing traffic. Because different ILRSHs would be managed by different companies, this can further generate competition and improvements in the management and scheduling algorithms in order to increase revenue This will lead to higher quality of service, higher efficiency in using the reserved lane, lower prices for slots, and so forth.
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