The travel behavior of passengers from the transportation hub within the city area is critical for travel demand analysis, security monitoring, and supporting traffic facilities designing. However, the traditional methods used to study the travel behavior of the passengers inside the city are time and labor consuming. The records of the cellular communication provide a potential huge data source for this study to follow the movement of passengers. This study focuses on the passengers’ travel behavior of the Hongqiao transportation hub in Shanghai, China, utilizing the mobile phone data. First, a systematic and novel method is presented to extract the trip information from the mobile phone data. Several key travel characteristics of passengers, including passengers traveling inside the city and between cities, are analyzed and compared. The results show that the proposed method is effective to obtain the travel trajectories of mobile phone users. Besides, the travel behavior of incity passengers and external passengers are quite different. Then, the correlation analysis of the passengers’ travel trajectories is provided to research the availability of the comprehensive area. Moreover, the results of the correlation analysis further indicate that the comprehensive area of the Hongqiao hub plays a relatively important role in passengers’ daily travel.
For the purpose of improving traffic signal control at over-saturated intersection group, the traffic control targets and structure were optimized, and an implementation framework was proposed. After analyzing the congestion inducements, the maximum throughput and minimum average queue of critical route were selected as the optimization objectives. The critical route layer was added to optimize control structure. The implementation framework for signal timing plan optimization was also put forward considering the over-saturated traffic control characters. Detailed optimization measures for each layer were also discussed. Simulations with the traffic data of an intersection group at Guangzhou Road in Nanjing were selected to compare the performance of dynamic timing plan using proposed strategy and static timing plan. The results indicated the proposed method can be used to optimize traffic signal control of over-saturated intersections group with satisfying robustness and reliability. 相似文献