A Study Of Electronic Toll Collection Lane Allocation By Highway Toll Plaza Simulation

The Highway Toll Plaza is the bottleneck of the highway, Electronic Toll Collection can resolve this problem effectively. A Toll Plaza which has been rebuilt reasonably can improve the throughput of the toll plaza and reduce the delay of a vehicle evidently. For reducing error in ETC toll plaza rebuilt, the dissertation present ETC lane configuration mode which suit the situation of China and evaluate ETC lane allocation using computer simulation.This dissertation present several ETC lane configuration mode which suit the situation of China firstly; then analyze the traffic flow characteristic of highway ETC Toll Plaza; a ETC toll plaza microscopic simulation model has been built up; a ETC toll plaza simulation software which called ETPS is developed using Microsoft Visual C++ computer language. ETPS visualize the characteristic of vehicle by simulation animation and result with toll plaza Measure of Effectiveness; depend on the simulation result, this dissertation analyze the influence of the performance with different location and number of ETC lane, different ETC vehicle proportion, wrong to ETC vehicle proportion respectively. Finally, the appropriate ETC lane type and number under different ETC rebuild period and different ETC vehicle proportion and different traffic volumes are identified to offer reference for toll plaza rebuild and design.