• DocumentCode
    3072572
  • Title

    Optimal traffic light control for a single intersection

  • Author

    De Schutter, Bart

  • Author_Institution
    Control Eng. Lab., Delft Univ. of Technol., Netherlands
  • Volume
    3
  • fYear
    1999
  • fDate
    1999
  • Firstpage
    2195
  • Abstract
    We consider a traffic light controlled intersection. First we construct a model that describes the evolution of the queue lengths (as continuous variables) in each lane. Next, we discuss how optimal and suboptimal traffic light switching schemes (with possibly variable cycle lengths) for this system can be determined. We also show that for a special class of objective functions suboptimal traffic light switching schemes can be computed very efficiently
  • Keywords
    approximation theory; minimisation; road traffic; suboptimal control; traffic control; objective functions; optimal switching schemes; optimal traffic light control; queue lengths; single intersection; suboptimal switching schemes; Control engineering; Control systems; Information technology; Lighting control; Military computing; Optimal control; Road transportation; Road vehicles; Switches; Traffic control;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    American Control Conference, 1999. Proceedings of the 1999
  • Conference_Location
    San Diego, CA
  • ISSN
    0743-1619
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-4990-3
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ACC.1999.786344
  • Filename
    786344