Advanced Traffic Management Systems: An Overview and A Development Strategy

TL;DR

This paper provides an overview of advanced traffic management systems (ATMS), discussing their four main components and proposing a development strategy to improve urban traffic flow and reduce congestion.

Contribution

It offers a comprehensive overview of ATMS components and introduces a new development strategy for enhancing traffic management effectiveness.

Findings

Identifies four main sections of ATMS: information, assignment, optimization, prediction.

Highlights limitations of expanding network capacity in dense urban areas.

Proposes a strategic development plan for ATMS implementation.

Abstract

Nowadays the problem of traffic congestion is known as the main cause of air pollution in the cities of the world. Urban traffic engineers and managers have proposed three general approaches to dealing with this phenomenon. The first approach expands the capacity of the urban traffic network (UTN). This approach cannot be implemented in many urban areas due to urban density and traffic volume. The second approach can be called the traffic assignment. In this approach, through software applications or information boards, network managers are informed about the users' status in the network and offer the best route to them. Finally, the third approach involves optimizing the capacity of the UTN. This approach tries to control the traffic actuators in order to create the maximum capacity for network users. Therefore, it can be said that the advanced traffic management systems (ATMS) are based on four main sections. These four sections include traffic information, traffic assignment, traffic optimization, and traffic prediction. This paper initially presents an overview of these four sections, in the end, it proposes a development strategy for the ATMSs.