The effect evaluating system of VMS information guidance on urban road network

Abstract

With the VMS gradually extensively used in major cities, it is necessary to evaluate its guiding result scientifically and systematically. This paper studies on the effect evaluating system of VMS, mainly includes evaluation index and comprehensive evaluation two parts. First, the evaluation index is made up of five indexes which are network, economy, environment, safety and driver. Second, compare the common comprehensive evaluation method and the Grey relational analysis is finally chose. Finally, take one region network of Beijing as an example to apply the evaluation system and prove its efficiency. © 2012 Springer-Verlag GmbH.