Publications by Anastasios Kouvelas

Critical node selection method for efficient Max-Pressure traffic signal control in large-scale congested networks

Nikolaos Geroliminis, Anastasios Kouvelas, Dimitrios Tsitsokas

Decentralized signal control of congested traffic networks based on the Max-Pressure (MP) controller is theoretically proven to maximize throughput, stabilize the system and balance queues for single intersections under specific conditions. However, its pe ...

2022

Two-layer adaptive signal control framework for large-scale networks combining efficient Max-Pressure and Perimeter Control

Nikolaos Geroliminis, Anastasios Kouvelas, Dimitrios Tsitsokas

This work investigates the benefits of a two-layer adaptive signal control framework combining multi-region perimeter control (PC) with distributed Max Pressure (MP) control in selected network intersections. Motivated by MP’s questionable performance in o ...

2022

Perimeter Control and Route Guidance of Multi-Region MFD Systems With Boundary Queues Using Colored Petri Nets

Nikolaos Geroliminis, Anastasios Kouvelas, Hui Fu

Perimeter control based on Macroscopic Fundamental Diagram (MFD) aims to meter the number of transferring vehicles at the periphery of the protected urban region in order to obtain the desired number of vehicles in that region. The advantage of perimeter c ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2022

Modeling and optimization of dedicated bus lanes space allocation in large networks with dynamic congestion

Nikolaos Geroliminis, Anastasios Kouvelas, Dimitrios Tsitsokas

Dedicated bus lanes provide a low cost and easily implementable strategy to improve transit service by minimizing congestion-related delays. Identifying the best spatial distribution of bus-only lanes in order to maximize traffic performance of an urban ne ...

2021

Modeling, estimation, and control in large-scale urban road networks with remaining travel distance dynamics

Nikolaos Geroliminis, Isik Ilber Sirmatel, Anastasios Kouvelas, Dimitrios Tsitsokas

City-scale control of urban road traffic poses a challenging problem. Dynamical models based on the macroscopic fundamental diagram (MFD) enable development of model predictive perimeter control methods for large-scale urban networks, representing an advan ...

2021

An extended Kalman filter approach for real-time state estimation in multi-region MFD urban networks

Nikolaos Geroliminis, Mohammadreza Saeedmanesh, Anastasios Kouvelas

The problem of traffic state estimation for large-scale urban networks modeled with MFD dynamics is studied here. Given a network partitioned in a number of regions, aggregated traffic dynamics describe the vehicle accumulation in each region, as well as t ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2021

Combinatorial optimization of Dedicated Bus Lane layout in urban networks with dynamic congestion

Nikolaos Geroliminis, Anastasios Kouvelas, Dimitrios Tsitsokas

Transit priority based in exclusive right-of-way is a low-cost way of improving transit service by minimizing delays caused by interaction with other vehicles. This effect can increase the share of public transit against private cars in the mode preference ...

2020

Modeling and integrated control of macroscopic heterogeneous traffic flow in large scale urban network using coloured Petri net

Nikolaos Geroliminis, Anastasios Kouvelas, Hui Fu

The evaluation of perimeter control using Macroscopic Fundamental Diagram (MFD) concept is strongly related with the quality of the corresponding dynamic models. For capturing the real characteristics of traffic dynamics, an enhanced accumulation-based tra ...

2019

Linear-parameter-varying approximation of nonlinear dynamics for model predictive flow control of urban multi-region systems

Nikolaos Geroliminis, Mohammadreza Saeedmanesh, Anastasios Kouvelas

An alternative approach for real-time network- wide traffic control in cities that has recently gained a lot of interest is perimeter flow control. The focus of the current work is to study two aspects that are not covered in the perimeter control literatu ...

2019

Linear-parameter-varying model predictive control for multi-region traffic systems

Nikolaos Geroliminis, Mohammadreza Saeedmanesh, Anastasios Kouvelas

An alternative approach for real-time network-wide traffic control in cities that has recently gained a lot of interest is perimeter flow control. The basic concept of such an approach is to partition heterogeneous cities into a small number of homogeneous ...

2019

An optimization framework for exclusive bus lane allocation in large networks with dynamic congestion

Nikolaos Geroliminis, Anastasios Kouvelas, Dimitrios Tsitsokas

Road space distribution among multiple modes of transport in urban networks has attracted the interest of several researchers and policy planners. Traditionally, these problems are solved by ignoring operational and dynamic characteristics of multi-modal c ...

2019

Modeling and Optimization of Dedicated Bus Lane network design under dynamic traffic congestion

Nikolaos Geroliminis, Anastasios Kouvelas, Dimitrios Tsitsokas

Collective transport has been seen for long as a proper solution to fight congestion. While collectivity has been successful with respect to subways, it is not the norm in road traffic. Dedicated Bus Lanes (DBL) have been proposed as a measure to reduce th ...

2019

Hierarchical control design for large-scale urban road traffic networks

Nikolaos Geroliminis, Anastasios Kouvelas

TRB2018

Hierarchical control for large-scale urban road traffic networks

Nikolaos Geroliminis, Anastasios Kouvelas

2018

Two-layer hierarchical control for large-scale urban traffic networks

Nikolaos Geroliminis, Anastasios Kouvelas

Many efforts have been carried out to optimize the traffic signal settings in cities. Nevertheless, state-of-the-art and -practice strategies cannot deal efficiently with oversaturated conditions (i.e. queue spillbacks and partial gridlocks), as they are e ...

IEEE2018

Emerging Information and Communication Technologies for Traffic Estimation and Control

Mehmet Yildirimoglu, Anastasios Kouvelas, Eric Justin Gonzales

2018

Dynamic Modeling of Trip Completion Rate in Urban Areas with MFD Representations

Nikolaos Geroliminis, Mikhail Murashkin, Raphael Ali Francis Lamotte, Anastasios Kouvelas

A large part of the research utilizing the concept of Macroscopic Fundamental Diagram (MFD) relies heavily on the PL model, an approximation of the trip completion rate derived for steady states. There exists an alternative method to the PL approximation. ...

2018

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Critical node selection method for efficient Max-Pressure traffic signal control in large-scale congested networks

Two-layer adaptive signal control framework for large-scale networks combining efficient Max-Pressure and Perimeter Control

Perimeter Control and Route Guidance of Multi-Region MFD Systems With Boundary Queues Using Colored Petri Nets

Modeling and optimization of dedicated bus lanes space allocation in large networks with dynamic congestion

Modeling, estimation, and control in large-scale urban road networks with remaining travel distance dynamics

An extended Kalman filter approach for real-time state estimation in multi-region MFD urban networks

Combinatorial optimization of Dedicated Bus Lane layout in urban networks with dynamic congestion

Modeling and integrated control of macroscopic heterogeneous traffic flow in large scale urban network using coloured Petri net

Linear-parameter-varying approximation of nonlinear dynamics for model predictive flow control of urban multi-region systems

Linear-parameter-varying model predictive control for multi-region traffic systems

An optimization framework for exclusive bus lane allocation in large networks with dynamic congestion

Modeling and Optimization of Dedicated Bus Lane network design under dynamic traffic congestion

Hierarchical control design for large-scale urban road traffic networks

Hierarchical control for large-scale urban road traffic networks

Two-layer hierarchical control for large-scale urban traffic networks

Emerging Information and Communication Technologies for Traffic Estimation and Control

Dynamic Modeling of Trip Completion Rate in Urban Areas with MFD Representations

Application of an extended Kalman filter traffic estimation scheme to microsimulation

A Linear Formulation for Model Predictive Perimeter Traffic Control in Cities

Macroscopic traffic modeling of heterogeneous road networks using coloured Petri nets