The benefits of travel reservation in urban road based on microscopic traffic simulation
A simulation platform for travel reservation in urban road based on SUMO is developed to explore the change of traffic benefit brought by travel reservation. In order to realize the simulation of real traffic operation scenario under the reservation mechanism, the simulation platform takes real travel demand as the input of non-reserved traffic flow, and uses the real-time path planning algorithm based on A* algorithm to plan the path for reserved vehicles. Based on the simulation platform, the change of travel benefits at individual level and system level in the case of mixed driving between reserved vehicles and non-reserved vehicles is studied. Simulation results show that: (1) travel reservation can greatly alleviate traffic congestion; (2) with the increase of reservation rate, travel benefits increase, but their overall growth trend decrease; (3) promoting travel reservation for key promotion objects which include group passing regularly through the bottleneck and group traveling long distances, travel efficiency can be greatly improved.