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Prof. Dr. Kenneth Sörensen

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Department of Engineering Management, University of Antwerp, 2000 Antwerp, Belgium
Interests: logistical planning; optimization; (meta) heuristics; vehicle routing; humanitarian logistics; horizontal collaboration; public transport planning

Prof. Dr. Marc Sevaux

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Lab-STICC, University of South Brittany, F56321 Lorient, France
Interests: design of heuristics and metaheuristics; mathematical programming; matheuristics; routing problems; optimization in electronic design; wireless sensor networks; scheduling
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Dear Colleagues,

We invite submissions to a Special Issue of Sustainability on “Optimization in Logistics and Mobility Using Metaheuristics”. This Special Issue will focus on innovative methods to solve realistic or real-life optimization problems arising in the transportation of either goods (logistics) or people (mobility).

Contributions that focus on the sustainability aspects of optimization in logistics and mobility are especially welcomed (e.g., minimizing the ecological footprint). We encourage the submission of papers that discuss real-life optimization problems and acknowledge that it might be difficult to perform a strictly computational comparison of the algorithms developed to solve these problems.

Prof. Dr. Kenneth Sörensen
Prof. Dr. Marc Sevaux
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Keywords

Optimization
Logistics
Mobility
Heuristics
Metaheuristics

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Open AccessEditor’s ChoiceArticle

Intelligent Intersection Control for Delay Optimization: Using Meta-Heuristic Search Algorithms

by Arshad Jamal, Muhammad Tauhidur Rahman, Hassan M. Al-Ahmadi, Irfan Ullah and Muhammad Zahid

Sustainability 2020, 12(5), 1896; https://doi.org/10.3390/su12051896 - 02 Mar 2020

Cited by 50 | Viewed by 5046

Abstract

Traffic signal control is an integral component of an intelligent transportation system (ITS) that play a vital role in alleviating traffic congestion. Poor traffic management and inefficient operations at signalized intersections cause numerous problems as excessive vehicle delays, increased fuel consumption, and vehicular emissions. Operational performance at signalized intersections could be significantly enhanced by optimizing phasing and signal timing plans using intelligent traffic control methods. Previous studies in this regard have mostly focused on lane-based homogenous traffic conditions. However, traffic patterns are usually non-linear and highly stochastic, particularly during rush hours, which limits the adoption of such methods. Hence, this study aims to develop metaheuristic-based methods for intelligent traffic control at isolated signalized intersections, in the city of Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. Genetic algorithm (GA) and differential evolution (DE) were employed to enhance the intersection’s level of service (LOS) by optimizing the signal timings plan. Average vehicle delay through the intersection was selected as the primary performance index and algorithms objective function. The study results indicated that both GA and DE produced a systematic signal timings plan and significantly reduced travel time delay ranging from 15 to 35% compared to existing conditions. Although DE converged much faster to the objective function, GA outperforms DE in terms of solution quality i.e., minimum vehicle delay. To validate the performance of proposed methods, cycle length-delay curves from GA and DE were compared with optimization outputs from TRANSYT 7F, a state-of-the-art traffic signal simulation, and optimization tool. Validation results demonstrated the adequacy and robustness of proposed methods. Full article

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Optimization in Logistics and Mobility Using Metaheuristics)

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