A new approach for combined freeway variable speed limits and coordinated ramp metering

IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Proceedings, ITSC

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 491-498

  Lu, Xiao Yun ^a   Varaiya, Pravin ^b   Horowitz, Roberto ^a   Su, Dongyan ^a   Shladover, Steven E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL DESIGN; CONTROL STRATEGIES; FINITE TIME HORIZON; MICROSCOPIC SIMULATION; NEW APPROACHES; RAMP METERING; TRAFFIC FLOW; VARIABLE SPEED LIMITS; WEAVING SECTION;

DESIGN; DROPS; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL; PREDICTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; RESOURCE VALUATION; SPEED CONTROL; TRAFFIC SURVEYS;

HIGHWAY TRAFFIC CONTROL;

EID: 78650485219     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ITSC.2010.5625107     Document Type: Conference Paper

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