Abstract:The traffic state would become congested at the bottleneck region during peak period, which increase travel time, and decrease efficiency. From time-space traffic characteristics on freeway mainline, macroscopic traffic flow model METANET is modified to describe the traffic flow with VSL control. Furthermore, based on the modified traffic flow models, establish the VSL models at bottleneck region, with the objective of improving traffic efficiency and decreasing travel time. As part of the VSL control algorithm, the proposed VSL control model is implemented at VISSIM simulation platform, the results reveal that the given VSL values according to real time traffic flow conditions can control the vehicles arriving effectively. Therefore, the implement of VSL control can improve traffic efficiency and decrease travel time effectively.