Urban traffic control structure based on hybrid petri nets

IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 224-237

  Di Febbraro, Angela ^a   Giglio, Davide ^b   Sacco, Nicola ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Discrete event systems; Hybrid systems; Modeling; Petri nets (PNs); Signaling control; Traffic control (transportation); Traffic responsive strategies

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; INTELLIGENT VEHICLE HIGHWAY SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PETRI NETS; PROBLEM SOLVING; TRAFFIC SIGNALS;

DISCRETE EVENT SYSTEMS; HYBRID SYSTEMS; SIGNALING CONTROL; TRAFFIC RESPONSIVE STRATEGIES;

HIGHWAY TRAFFIC CONTROL;

EID: 10644231952     PISSN: 15249050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITS.2004.838180     Document Type: Article

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