1. 1/31 July 8, 2016 Designing Control Programs Chapter 6 Control programs for vehicle actuated control of complex intersections

2. 2/31 July 8, 2016 Designing Control Programs

3. 3/31 July 8, 2016 Benefits vehicle actual control: Just sufficient green phases Red time reduction Shorter cycle time Reduced waiting time (on isolated intersections) Higher intersection capacity Designing Control Programs

4. 4/31 July 8, 2016 Drawbacks vehicle actual control: % stopped vehicles increases changes in phase sequences Designing Control Programs

5. 5/31 July 8, 2016 VRIGen VRIGen: Verkeers Regeling Installatie Generator Traffic Control Program Generator

6. 6/31 July 8, 2016 Traffic streams Conflict matrix Volumes Saturation flow Couplings Timers Tactics Conflict groups Control structure Cycle time Flexibilty Max. green Control rules VRIGen

7. 7/31 July 8, 2016 TrafcodVissimVRIGen VRIGen and Control Programs control rules simulation

8. 8/31 July 8, 2016 VissimVRIGen For Student version VISSIM control scheme simulation

9. 9/31 July 8, 2016 Download from www.henkvanzuylen.eu Course Documents, Programs: VRIGen_exe VRIGen Help File TRAFCOD Save in work directory, unzip the zip files. VRIGen – Start Up

10. 10/31 July 8, 2016 VRIGen Start

11. 11/31 July 8, 2016 Input that influences structure STRUCTURE GENERATION Changes control program output for given structure 123456 VRIGen Tabs

12. 12/31 July 8, 2016 VRIGen File

13. 13/31 July 8, 2016 With graphics file stream detectors Move stream with mouse + ctrl: with detectors +alt+ctrl: detectors at stream

14. 14/31 July 8, 2016 New add streams 03, 06, 09, 12

15. 15/31 July 8, 2016 Standard valuesNew values (not realistic values…) Conflict Matrix

16. 16/31 July 8, 2016 Control Sequences

17. 17/31 July 8, 2016 Control Sequences

18. 18/31 July 8, 2016 Control Sequences Critical conflict group

19. 19/31 July 8, 2016 Control Sequences Critical path

20. 20/31 July 8, 2016 Save Files Example.vri Example.stg Example.tfg Example.dtl Example.bmp None.vxb Example.txt Example.tfc

21. 21/31 July 8, 2016 Flow – Saturation Flow

22. 22/31 July 8, 2016 Timers

23. 23/31 July 8, 2016 02 42 32 31 05 62 11 08 68 Couplings

24. 24/31 July 8, 2016 Couplings

25. 25/31 July 8, 2016 02, 11 08, 05 Indirect Conflict Couplings

26. 26/31 July 8, 2016 Predecessor – Following stream Predecessor Start Delay –predecessor is delayed until follow stream has started (car streams) Follower Cut Off – Predecessor cuts off conflicts of follower Car-Couplings

27. 27/31 July 8, 2016 Couplings clearance queue of 62 give last cars from 02 to pass stopline 62

28. 28/31 July 8, 2016 Couplings

29. 29/31 July 8, 2016 Predecessor – Following stream Follower Request Delay –Traffic on follower if predecessor demand (bicycle, pedestrian) Pedestrian/bicycle-Coupling 31 32

30. 30/31 July 8, 2016 Couplings

31. 31/31 July 8, 2016 VRIGen –Streams –Flow / Saturation Flow –Conflict matrix –Timers –Couplings –Structure generation Summary

32. 32/31 July 8, 2016 Implement your intersection in VRIGen Assignment