Modelling and optimizing of electronic toll collection (ETC) at Malaysian toll plazas using microsimulation models

Abstract

Toll plazas are one of the critical components of a roadway system. At the same time, they are among the most complex road structures, as drivers are exposed to a large amount of information and have a short amount of time to make a decision to avoid any collision. VISSIM and SSAM are used to investigate the effect of various Malaysian toll plazas design and traffic conditions on drivers’ behaviour and level of safety. The study was made a well-calibrated and validated VISSIM simulation model and several scenarios were simulated to test their efficacy for improving toll plaza safety aspects by using SSAM afterwards. From the results it was observed that the VISSIM simulation model scenarios such as implementing booths orientation and segregating lanes for different vehicle types to improve the level of service have significant safety aspects improvement regarding conflict points and lane change accidents results while using Surrogate Safety As-sessment Model (SSAM) in order to give the need for remediation of either the roadway design or the flow-control strategy.

Driver Behavior Profiling and Recognition Using Deep-Learning Methods: In Accordance with Traffic Regulations and Experts Guidelines

“…Previous studies in Malaysia collected driving data using surveys/question naires [24,25,32,33,35,36,38], observations [21][22][23][27][28][29][30]37] and simulations [26,34]. Most of these techniques have been criticized for being biased [2][3][4][5]13,14,72].…”

“…2014 Observations [21][22][23] 2015 Questionnaire [24,25] 2015 Simulations [26] 2015 Observations [27] 2016 Observations [28][29][30] 2017 Non-naturalistic experiments [31] 2018 Questionnaire [32,33] 2018 Simulations [34] 2019 Questionnaire [35,36] 2020 Observations [37] 2020 Questionnaire [38] In previous publications outside of Malaysia, experts were consulted to identify aggressive behaviors. Japan's risk consultants assigned scores to aggressive behaviors in [40].…”

Review of driving-behaviour simulation: VISSIM and artificial intelligence approach

“… The speed-flow curve drops more as the percentage of heavy vehicles increases. [ 137 ] By utilising the dynamic assignment model, the most optimal alternative path for contraflow can be determined. The VISSIM software is employed to predict the operation of contraflow under conditions of heterogeneous traffic.…”

“…used a third approach for capacity estimation in heterogeneous traffic and employed a simulation to determine the capacity of a roundabout in the presence of heterogeneous traffic [ 131 ]. employed VISSIM to model heterogeneous traffic conditions and used the output results for capacity estimation [ 137 ]. used VISSIM to determine the optimum contraflow alternative path under heterogeneous traffic conditions by employing dynamic assignment.…”

Multiobjective Optimization Design of Toll Plaza

“…Valdés et al [8] and Abuzwidah and Abdel-Aty [9,10] compared the security of different types of toll plaza. Jehad et al [11] used VIS-SIM simulation model to design toll plaza to improve security.…”