Title :
Overview of road traffic control strategies
Author :
Papageorgiou, Makos
Author_Institution :
Tech. Univ. Crete, Greece
Abstract :
An overview of advanced traffic control strategies for urban road networks and freeway networks, as well as for route guidance and information systems is presented in this paper. Fixed-time techniques that use historical data to set up strategies for specific time-of-day control is discussed, but the main focus of the paper is on traffic control strategies that determine control inputs in real time to achieve specified goals.
Keywords :
automated highways; road traffic; traffic information systems; fixed-time techniques; freeway network; road traffic control strategy; route guidance information system; time-of-day control; urban road network; Communication system traffic control; Delay; Environmental economics; Information systems; Pollution measurement; Road vehicles; Safety; Throughput; Traffic control; Transportation;
Conference_Titel :
Information and Communication Technologies: From Theory to Applications, 2004. Proceedings. 2004 International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8482-2
DOI :
10.1109/ICTTA.2004.1307576
