The EURAMP Workshop on Ramp Metering was held in Paris on March 22nd 2007. Follow this link to view the presentations from the workshop.

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The major objective of the EURAMP project is to advance, promote and harmonise ramp metering control measures in European motorways in the aim of improving safety and increasing efficiency of traffic flow. This major objective is pursued within EURAMP via a number of multifaceted actions and sub-objectives:

• Advancement of methodological issues, with particular focus on traffic flow safety, to secure a European technological leadership in the area.
• Consolidation, harmonisation and advancement of ramp metering practice in Europe.
• Demonstration of new developments in European sites and paving the way for a new generation of extended (network-wide) ramp metering installations.
• Co-operation of ramp metering with signal control and further heterogeneous control measures for maximum synergy in terms of traffic flow efficiency and safety.

EURAMP commenced in March 2004, and will last for 36 months. The first stage in the project was the design and simulation testing of ramp metering algorithms in several test sites and virtual sites. This was followed by the field implementation and verification of the strategy. Field demonstrations of ramp metering that will allow assessment of the strategies and an overall comparative evaluation are currently underway. Click here for details of workpackages and tasks in EURAMP.

EURAMP attempts to fill a number of methodological, technological and practical gaps in order to advance ramp metering control measures in Europe to aid traffic flow safety and efficiency.

The EURAMP demonstration sites are:

• xin France, the A6 motorway south of Paris
• xin the Netherlands, the A28 and A2 motorways outside Utrecht
• xin Germany, the A94 in the east of Munich
• xin Israel, the Ayalon Highway in Tel Aviv

In addition there has been simulation testing at virtual sites in Paris and Munich.

The test sites are located on motorways and surrounding networks of various characteristics and levels of telematics infrastructure.

page maintained by Helen Condie at TRi, Napier University, last updated 22/11/07

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Project Funded by the European Community under the
"Information Society Technologies" Programme (2002 - 2006)