Multi-Regional Traffic Control with Travel and Charging Demand Co-Management
For urban traffic managers, this work addresses the growing challenge of managing congestion and electric vehicle charging demands simultaneously.
This paper proposes a regional traffic coordination framework that integrates route guidance and charging management to improve traffic network efficiency, demonstrated on a 16-region urban network.
Urban traffic management is essential for reducing congestion and supporting sustainable mobility. However, the task is becoming more challenging due to the growing penetration of electric vehicles and their charging demands. This paper presents a regional traffic coordination framework that combines route guidance and charging management to improve traffic network efficiency. Regional traffic dynamics are modeled by the macroscopic fundamental diagram, which allows for the analysis of congestion at the system level. The framework jointly optimizes routes and charging decisions, and it also uses demand management to regulate external inflows into the network. A case study on a 16-region urban network demonstrates the effectiveness of the proposed approach.