• Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.15-29
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• 1997

Many studies have been performed and applied successfully for the control of undersaturated intersections, but most of them have been ineffective or invalid in oversaturated conditions. There has been relatively limited research in traffic control for oversaturated environments, and most has been too theoretical to be applied in a real system. Therefore, a traffic simulation model specifically designed for oversaturated arterial networks was developed. Two control objectives of traffic signal timing in oversaturated conditions were taken into consideration. One was to maximize the throughput, or the number of vehicles processed during a given time period. The other was to prevent queue spillback or to minimize the occurrence of queue spillback if inevitable.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.11-21
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• 2013

The conventional real-time signal control strategy for oversaturated situation generally requires a number of detectors at the intersection in order to identify the queue length at each approach. Also, existing strategy for the spillback has limited effect due to the temporal spillback control which only reduce the green split at the approach. In this study, a signal control system utilizing the imagery information from ITS roadside equipment is developed for operation of oversaturated intersections. The strategy calculates the saturation ratio based on the queue length extracted from ITS RSE, and designs the signal control variables according to the saturation ratio. The signal control strategy is divided into two phases: oversaturated and supersaturated. In oversaturated conditions, timing plan for main approach is optimized by the queue length. In oversaturated conditions where spillback might occur, the signal timing is designed in order to avoid the spillback. To increase field adaptability, the strategy is designed to adjust the split length, all-red-time, and clearance time, and keep the major signal control variables intact. The result of the simulation shows that in oversaturated conditions, the improvement is similar to the real-time signal control system. In case of, oversaturated conditions, however, the effect of the strategy is superior to that of a real-time system.

• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.87-103
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• 1993

The subject this paper is the signal control strategy under oversaturated conditions. The nature of traffic control for oversaturation is essentially different from the standard control modes. While under non-saturated situation traffic control is needed for the sake of safety and efficiency, the throughput is essential under oversaturated conditions. Therefore berth objective and strategies differ. For an oversaturated stream the cycle time and the signal offset are thought to be of rather secondary importance. For this case the green split may well be the most important control variable to serve the excessive demand. Up to now, however, most efforts have concentrated on the strategy with the concept which lies just on the extension of Webster's. "Green-split Coordination Strategy for Over-Saturated Networks", presents newly contrived three types of strategies named Forward-coordination, Backward-coordination and Network-coordination respectively and describes the algorithms with the evaluations. The forward coordination strategy treats the forward wave of flow between two signals. The aim is to prevent the outbreak of queue due to the accumulation of temporary excess of demand in near-saturation or saturation flow. The backward coordination strategy treats the backward rave of flow between two signals. The goal is to prevent the waste of green time caused by the exit block at the upstream signal. for this purpose a feedback regulation is provided of the upstream green-split so that the inflow-outflow balance is kept zero. The resultant surplus of green time is alloted to other signal stages. Also here the examination is made of the appropriate value of the feedback control parameter. The network coordination strategy is operated to maximize the network throughput in a specific direction applying a bang-bang control at the bottleneck intersection. This is a type of intervenient control for policy reasons. For this strategy the green-split coordinations, particuarly the backward coordination, are essential as the tactical elements. In order to evaluate the preposed strategies those are compared with the latest existing strategy called saturation-degree-ratio control by the simulation experiments in an assumed 4$\times$4 grid network. The results are satisfactory showing a 10-15% reduction in delays and a 15% increase in network capacity.

• Journal of environmental and Sanitary engineering
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.7-13
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• 2000

To develop the removal technique of algal bloom the efficiencies of algal flocculation/ autoflotation by the kinds of coagulant and oversaturated oxygen concentration were investigated. The summarized results are as follow. 1. In the algae flocculation test with alum[$Al_2(SO_4)_3{\cdot}18H_2O$], optimum pH was 5.5 and, with chitosan optimum pH was 7.0. 2. Chitosan which was natural polymer showed the 5~10 times higher algal biomass flocculation efficiency than alum in the condition of same algal concentration. 3. For the each coagulant, the higher ${\Delta}DO$(oversaturated dissolved oxygen concentration - saturated dissolved oxygen) was, the faster the rising velocity of the algal floc was. 4. In the condition of about 4mg/L ${\Delta}DO$, the rising velocity of chitosan is about 2 times higher than that of alum, and chitosan formed the stronger algal floc.

• 한국ITS학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2008.11a
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• pp.228-236
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• 2008

• Proceedings of the KOR-KST Conference
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• 2007.05a
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• pp.352-361
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• 2007

• 한국ITS학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.13-18
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• 2005

• 한국ITS학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.8-13
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• 2003

• Proceedings of the KOR-KST Conference
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• 2007.11a
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• pp.467-476
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• 2007

• 한국ITS학회:학술대회논문집
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• v.2007 no.10
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• pp.64-69
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• 2007