RESEARCH ARTICLE
Estimating Queue at Traffic Signals
Johannes J. Bezuidenhout, Prakash Ranjitkar*, Roger Dunn
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2014Volume: 8
First Page: 73
Last Page: 82
Publisher ID: TOTJ-8-73
DOI: 10.2174/1874447801408010073
Article History:
Received Date: 24/7/2014Revision Received Date: 21/10/2014
Acceptance Date: 22/10/2014
Electronic publication date: 09/12/2014
Collection year: 2014
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Abstract
This paper proposes a new queue prediction model based on the data that can be collected from a single loop detector positioned at the stop line of signalised intersections. A number of different model forms were explored using an enhanced NGSIM dataset. These data were filtered to represent the data that can be typically collected from a stop line detector loop. The best six models resulted in an accuracy ranging from 83% to 95% to correctly predict the state of vehicle’s discharge close to the stop line that is whether it is a queued or platooned vehicle. When combined with a logical filter to group sequential vehicles, it enables a traffic controller to estimate the most likely queue length. The proposed model will form part of a new offset optimizer algorithm currently under development.