Application of Perturbation Analysis to Traffic Light Signal Timing

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

Volumn 5, Issue , 2003, Pages 4837-4840

  Fu, Michael C ^a   Howell, William C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES;

FINITE-DIFFERENCE ESTIMATES; SIGNAL CYCLE;

TRAFFIC SIGNALS;

EID: 1542290030     PISSN: 07431546     EISSN: 25762370     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CDC.2003.1272360     Document Type: Conference Paper

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4. Howell, W.C. and Fu, M.C., "Optimizing Traffic Light Signal Timing using Perturbation Analysis," working paper, 2003.
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