Research Article

Proactive Traffic Information Control in Emergency Evacuation Network

Table 1

Traffic demand and characteristics of cell.

Index typeAssigned number

Total demand (which would depart uniformly in 15 mins) of each origin450 veh
Length of (loading) time interval6 s
Length of information-updating time interval180 s
Free-flow speed10 m/s
Length of head and tail cell6 basic cells
Maximum occupancy of approach cell 14, 246 veh
Maximum occupancy of approach cell 42, 7512 veh
Maximum occupancy of other approach cells9 veh
Maximum occupancy of head and tail cells 108 veh
Capacity of approach cell 14, 24 per time interval1 veh
Capacity of approach cell 42, 75 per time interval5 veh
Capacity of other approach cells per time interval3 veh
Capacity of head and tail cells per time interval6 veh