A detailed evaluation of ramp metering impacts on driver behaviour |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Transportation Research Group, School of Civil Engineering and the Environment, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK;2. School of Traffic and Transportation, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, 100044, PR China;1. Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China;2. Jiangsu Province Collaborative Innovation Center of Modern Urban Traffic Technologies, Nanjing 210096, China;3. College of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China;1. Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Texas at El Paso, 500 W. University Ave, El Paso, TX 79968, U.S.A.;2. Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Texas at El Paso, 500 W. University Ave, El Paso, TX 79968, U.S.A.;3. Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, The University of Texas at El Paso, 500 W. University Ave, El Paso, TX 79968, U.S.A.;4. Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Texas at El Paso, 500 W. University Ave, El Paso, TX 79968, U.S.A.;1. The Ohio State University, Joint Appointment with the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geodetic Engineering, and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Hitchcock Hall 470, 2070 Neil Ave, Columbus, OH 43210, United States;2. The Ohio State University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, United States;3. Battelle Memorial Institute, United States;1. College of Transport and Communications, Shanghai Maritime University, Shanghai 201306, China;2. MOE Key Laboratory for Urban Transportation Complex Systems Theory and Technology, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China;3. Chongqing Key Lab of Traffic System & Safety in Mountain Cities, Chongqing Jiaotong University, Chongqing 400074, China;4. Australian Institute of Psychology, Level 2,140 Brunswick Street, Fortitude Valley, Queensland 4006, Australia;5. Griffith School of Engineering, Griffith University, Gold Coast, 4222 Queensland, Australia;1. Department of Civil Engineering, College of Engineering, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana;2. Department of Planning, Faculty of Built Environment, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana;3. School of Environmental Sciences, Institute for Land Water and Society, Charles Sturt University, P. O. Box 789 NSW 2640 Albury, Australia;4. Department of Planning, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana |
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| Abstract: | Ramp metering was first installed in Chicago in 1963 and is now widely employed in North America and European countries to alleviate motorway traffic congestion. A detailed investigation was carried out to study the potential impacts of ramp metering on driving behaviour. An instrumented vehicle and 11 video cameras were used to measure detailed driving performance of drivers merging at on ramps and those on motorway carriageways in a ramp metering controlled intersection with and without ramp metering control. The main behavioural parameters used for the study include: speed, headway, acceleration and deceleration, sizes of accepted gap, merge distance, speed at merge, etc. Based on the study, it is believed that ramp metering does result in driving behaviour changes of traffic on the motorway carriageway and on ramp. It improves the merge condition of traffic at the on ramp, but may cause minor reduction of speeds of traffic on motorway carriageway during the metering time. |
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