Macroscopic traffic flow stability for adaptive cruise controlled (ACC) vehicles

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

Volumn 1, Issue , 2002, Pages 893-899

  Yi, Jingang ^a   Horowitz, Roberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL SYSTEM SYNTHESIS; INTELLIGENT CONTROL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPEED CONTROL; STABILITY CRITERIA; SYSTEM STABILITY; TRAFFIC CONTROL; WAVEFRONTS;

ADAPTIVE CRUISE CONTROL VEHICLES; CONSTANT TIME HEADWAY; MACROSCOPIC TRAFFIC FLOW STABILITY; WAVEFRONT EXPANSION TECHNIQUE;

ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0036994423     PISSN: 01912216     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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