EURAMP (EUropean RAmp Metering Project), contract number 507645, is part of the
European Commission's FP6 Action Line "e-safety of road and air transports".
The project total cost is € 2,949,890
and the Commission contribution is € 2,043,350.
EUropean RAmp
Metering Project


Publications and Papers presented:

WANG, Y., SCHIEFERSTEIN, A. and PAPAGEORGIOU, M. Local Ramp Metering in the Presence of a Distant Downstream Bottleneck. TRB 86th Annual Meeting, Washington, D. C., January 21-25, 2007. read the abstract

ERNHOFER, O. Evaluation and Field Evaluation of the Fuzzy Logic Based Ramp Metering Algorithm ACCEZZ. 13th World Congress on ITS, London, U.K., October 8-12, 2006.

PAPAGEORGIOU, M., VIGKOS, G. and WANG, Y. A Ramp Queue Length Estimation Algorithm. 9th Annual International IEEE ITS Conference, Toronto, Canada, September 17-20, 2006. read the abstract

VUKANOVIC, S. and ERNHOFER, O. Evaluation and Field Implementation of the Fuzzy Logic Based Ramp Metering Algorithm ACCEZZ. 9th Annual International IEEE ITS Conference, Toronto, Canada, September 17-20, 2006. read the abstract

WANG, Y. and PAPAGEORGIOU, M. Local Ramp Metering in the Case of Distant Downstream Bottlenecks. 9th Annual International IEEE ITS Conference, Toronto, Canada, September 17-20, 2006. read the abstract

KOTSIALOS, A., PAPAMICHAIL, I., MARGONIS, I. and PAPAGEORGIOU, M. Hierarchical Nonlinear Model-Predictive Ramp Metering Control for Freeway Networks. 11th IFAC Symposium on Control in Transportation Systems, Delft, Netherlands, August 29-31, 2006. read the abstract

MIDDELHAM, F. and TAALE, H. Ramp Metering in the Netherlands: An Overview. 11th IFAC Symposium on Control in Transportation Systems, Delft, Netherlands, August 29-31, 2006. read the abstract

VUKANOVIC, S. and ERNHOFER, O. Field Evaluation of the Fuzzy Logic Based Ramp Metering Algorithm ACCEZZ. 11th IFAC Symposium on Control in Transportation Systems, Delft, Netherlands, August 29-31, 2006. read the abstract

Click here for a list of all papers presented at the special session on ramp metering at the 11th IFAC Symposium on Control in Transportation Systems, Delft, Netherlands, August 29-31, 2006.

MUHURDAREVIC, Z., CONDIE, H., BEN-SHABAT, E., ERNHOFER, O., HADJ-SALEM, H. and PAPAMICHAIL, I. Ramp Metering In Europe – State-of-the-Art and Beyond. Fifth International Conference on Traffic and Transportation Studies (ICTTS) Xi’an, China August 2-4, 2006. read the full text

KOTSIALOS, A., PAPAGEORGIOU, M., HAYDEN, J., HIGGINSON, K., McCABE, K. and RAYMAN, N. Discrete Release Rate Impact on Ramp Metering Performance. IEE Proceedings Intelligent Transport Systems, Volume 153, Issue 1, March 2006, pp. 85-96. read the abstract. The full text is available on the IET Publications website

KOTSIALOS, A., PAPAGEORGIOU, M., HAYDEN, J., HIGGINSON, R., McKABE, K. and RAYMAN, N. The Impact of the Number of Discrete Release Rates on Ramp Mmetering Performance. TRB 85th Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., January 22-26, 2006. read the abstract

KOSMATOPOULOS, E., PAPAGEORGIOU, M, MANOLIS, D., HAYDEN, J., HIGGINSON, R., McCABE, K. and RAYMAN, N. Real-time Estimation of the Ccritical Occupancy for Maximum Motorway Throughput. TRB 85th Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., January 22-26, 2006. read the abstract

KOTSIALOS, A., PAPAGEORGIOU, M. and MIDDELHAM, F. Local and Optimal Coordinated Ramp Metering for Freeway Networks. Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems: Technology, Planning, and Operations, Vol. 9, No. 4, October-December 2005, pp. 187-203. read the abstract.xxThe full text is available on the publisher's website x(Taylor & Francis Group).

KOTSIALOS, A. and PAPAGEORGIOU, M. A Hierarchical Ramp Metering Control Scheme for Feeway Networks. Proc. 2005 American Control Conference, June 8-10 2005, Portland, Oregon. pp. 2257-2262. read the abstract xxlink to the conference proceedings website

KOTSIALOS, A. and PAPAGEORGIOU, M. The Traffic Amelioration Potential of Freeway Network Ramp Metering Control. Paper presented at the Symposium on Systems, Control and Networks, in honour of Professor Pravin Varaiya, June 5 - 7 2005, Berkeley, California. Published in Advances in Control, Communication, Networks and Transportation Systems, E.H. Abed, Ed., 2005, pp. 283-303. read the abstract

KOTSIALOS, A. and PAPAGEORGIOU, M. Efficiency and Equity Properties of Freeway Network-wide Ramp Metering with AMOC. Transportation Research Part C, Vol. 12, No. 6, December 2004. pp. 401-420. read the abstract. xxThe full text is available on elsevier's website

KOTSIALOS, A. and PAPAGEORGIOU, M. Nonlinear Optimal Control Applied to Coordinated Ramp Metering. IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, Vol. 12, No. 6, November 2004, pp. 920-933. read the abstract xxlink to the IEEE website

KOTSIALOS, A. and PAPAGEORGIOU, M. Hierarchical Nonlinear Model-predictive Ramp Metering Control of Freeway Networks. Paper presented at TRISTAN V Triennial Symposium on Transportation Analysis, June 13-18 2004, Le Gosier, Guadeloupe. read the full text

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