Combining Variable Speed Limits with Ramp Metering for freeway traffic control

Proceedings of the 2010 American Control Conference, ACC 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 2266-2271

  Lu, Xiao Yun ^a   Qiu, Tony Z ^a,b   Varaiya, Pravin ^c   Horowitz, Roberto ^a   Shladover, Steven E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL STRATEGIES; FINITE TIME HORIZON; FREEWAY TRAFFIC; ON-RAMP; PERFORMANCE MEASURE; RAMP METERING; STATE VARIABLES; VARIABLE SPEED LIMITS;

HIGHWAY TRAFFIC CONTROL; PREDICTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; RESOURCE VALUATION; SPEED; SPEED CONTROL;

MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL;

EID: 77957799220     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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