The Planning of Automated Truck Dedicated Lanes Considering the Traffic Flow Equilibrium

This paper focuses on the automated truck transportation problem, which is to convert some existing general lanes to automated truck dedicated lanes, based on the traffic flow equilibrium. The problem aims at designing a feasible network of automated truck dedicated lanes to minimize the impact on the overall network. We formulate a nonlinear programming model for the considered problem, and apply a novel reformulation skill (Second Order Cone Programming) to simplify the nonlinear model. The commercial Optimizer Solver of CPLEX is applied to solve the model. A small instance is conducted to verify the accuracy of the proposed model.