A misapplication of the local ramp metering strategy ALINEA

IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 360-365

  Papageorgiou, Markos ^a   Kosmatopoulos, Elias ^a   Papamichail, Ioannis ^a   Wang, Yibing ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

ALINEA; Feedback traffic control; Ramp metering

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS; TRAFFIC CONGESTION;

APPLIED (CO); MAINSTREAM (MS); RAMP METERING; RAMP-METERING STRATEGY; SIMULATION RESULTS; TRAFFIC CONDITIONS;

BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS;

EID: 45249085674     PISSN: 15249050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITS.2008.922975     Document Type: Article

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