Freeway Traffic Modelling and Control

Part I Introduction.- Freeway Traffic Systems.- Fundamentals of Traffic Dynamics.- Part II Freeway Traffic Modelling.- First-Order Macroscopic Traffic Models.-  Second-Order Macroscopic Traffic Models.-  State Estimation in Freeway Traffic Systems.- Part III - Freeway Traffic Control.- An Overview of Traffic Control Schemes for Freeway Systems.- Implementation-Oriented Freeway Traffic Control Strategies.- Control Strategies for Sustainable Mobility in Freeways.-  Emerging Freeway Traffic Control Strategies.

Antonella Ferrara was born in Genova, Italy. As a student at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Genova, she got the "IEEE North Italy Section Electrical Engineering Student Award" in 1986. She received the Laurea Degree (Cum Laude and printing honours) in Electronic Engineering in 1987 and the Ph.D. in Computer Science and Electronics in 1992 from the University of Genova. She was Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication, Computer and System Sciences of the University of Genova from 1992 to 1998. In November 1998 she became Associate Professor of Automatic Control at the University of Pavia. Since January 2005 she is Full Professor of Automatic Control in the Department of Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering (ECBE) of the University of Pavia. Her research activities are mainly in the area of sliding mode control and nonlinear control, with application to traffic control, automotive control, process control, and robotics. She was a coordinator and member of several research units in national and European research projects. She was scientific responsible of several research projects funded or co-funded by companies. She has authored or co-authored more than 300 papers, including more than 100 international journal papers. From 2000 to 2004 she was Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, and, from 2007 to 2012, Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. Since 2014 she has been Associate Editor of the IEEE Control Systems Magazine, and, since 2017, Subject Editor of the International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control. She currently is and has been member of the International Program Committee of numerous international conferences and events. She is Editor of the 15th IFAC Symposium on Control in Transportation Systems CTS 2018 (Savona, Italy, June 2018). She is Senior Member of the IEEE Control Systems Society, member of the IEEE Technical Committee on Variable

"This book is a welcome contribution that focuses on the all-important freeway component of transportation systems. Its aim is to provide an overview of modeling approaches and traffic control methods in a comprehensive manner without sacrificing rigor. It is an ideal text for a motivated control engineer who decides to enter this field." (Christos G. Cassandras, IEEE Control Systems Magazine, February, 2019)