Automatic control of variable message signs in the interurban Scottish highway network

Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 173-187

  Messmer, Albert ^a   Papageorgiou, Markos ^b   MacKenzie, Neil ^c  

^a Sommerstr 12   (Germany)

^b T   (Greece)

^c V   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ATIS; Automatic control; Driver information; Feedback; Re routing; Route guidance; Scottish highway network; Variable message signs

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSTRAINT THEORY; FEEDBACK CONTROL; OPTIMIZATION; TRAFFIC SIGNS; TRANSPORTATION ROUTES;

INTERURBAN HIGH NETWORKS; VARIABLE MESSAGE SIGNS;

HIGHWAY SYSTEMS;

INFORMATION SYSTEM; MOTORWAY; TRANSPORTATION PLANNING; TRAVEL TIME;

SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0032105397     PISSN: 0968090X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0968-090X(98)00014-X     Document Type: Article

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