Mitigating urban motorway congestion and emissions via active traffic management

• DOI: 10.1016/j.rtbm.2022.100789
• Publication Date: 2022-02-03T13:02:15Z
• Authors: Duo Li; Joan Lasenby
• Keywords: Sustainable transport; Car ownership

Due to unavoidable expansion of car-ownership, traffic congestion and emissions in developing countries keep on increasing. Meanwhile, high construction costs statutory restrictions hinder traditional road infrastructure improvement projects. Thus, exploring cost-effective management solutions relieve becomes one the most significant challenges faced by transportation authorities, especially countries. Active (ATM) systems that are environmentally sustainable relatively low-cost particularly advantageous. In this study, we develop an integrated ATM system mitigate urban motorway emissions. The proposed can be used directly with existing facilities, which provides a way for decarbonization simulation results show developed reduce travel time spent (TTS), carbon dioxide (CO2) nitrogen oxides (NO2) 7.5%, 21.1% 10.7%, respectively.