Modeling urban traffic: A cellular automata approach

IEEE Communications Magazine

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 142-150

  Tonguz, Ozan K ^a   Viriyasitavat, Wantanee ^a   Bai, Fan ^b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Automata; Computational modeling; Roads; Traffic control; Turning; Urban areas; Vehicles

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATA; COMPUTATIONAL MODELING; CONTROL MECHANISM; CYCLE DURATION; DEVELOPED MODEL; GREEN SPLITS; NETWORK CONNECTIVITY; ROADS; SPACING DISTRIBUTION; TRAFFIC DYNAMICS; TRAFFIC LIGHT; TRAFFIC PATTERN; URBAN AREAS; URBAN TRAFFIC; VEHICULAR AD HOC NETWORKS;

AD HOC NETWORKS; AUTOMATA THEORY; CELLULAR AUTOMATA; PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; ROADS AND STREETS; ROBOTS; ROUTING PROTOCOLS; TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES); TURNING; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

STREET TRAFFIC CONTROL;

EID: 66849104074     PISSN: 01636804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MCOM.2009.4939290     Document Type: Article

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