A probabilistic model for traffic at actuated control signals

Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 299-310

  Viti, Francesco ^a   van Zuylen, Henk J ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Delay; Planning and design of controlled networks; Probabilistic modeling; Queuing; Vehicle actuated control

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; QUEUEING THEORY; RELIABILITY THEORY; TRAVEL TIME;

ACTUATED CONTROL; DELAY; PLANNING AND DESIGN; PROBABILISTIC MODELING; QUEUING;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

CONTROL SYSTEM; ESTIMATION METHOD; MODELING; PROBABILITY; SIMULATION; TRAVEL TIME;

EID: 77952290937     PISSN: 0968090X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trc.2009.05.003     Document Type: Article

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