<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>This paper applies a bi-level formalism for the optimal control of an urban transportation network. The well known store-and-forward model in traffic control is utilized in order to increase the control space of the optimization problem. Mainly, the store-and-forward models apply the split as a control argument, assuming the traffic light cycle as a constant parameter. The paper shows that by using a bi-level formalism the control problem can be defined within increased control space comprising both the split and the cycle. Both are found as optimal solutions of a bi-level optimization problem.</p></abstract>

This paper applies a bi-level formalism for the optimal control of an urban transportation network. The well known store-and-forward model in traffic control is utilized in order to increase the control space of the optimization problem. Mainly, the store-and-forward models apply the split as a control argument, assuming the traffic light cycle as a constant parameter. The paper shows that by using a bi-level formalism the control problem can be defined within increased control space comprising both the split and the cycle. Both are found as optimal solutions of a bi-level optimization problem.

Bi-Level Optimization in a Transport Network

Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia 1113

Dynamic Systems and Simulation Laboratory, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece

Cybernetics and Information Technologies

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This paper applies a bi-level formalism for the optimal control of an urban transportation network. The well known store-and-forward model in traffic control...

Bi-Level Optimization in a Transport Network

Published Online: Apr 30, 2015

Page range: 37 - 49

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/cait-2015-0015

© by Todor Stoilov

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