Optimizing minimum and maximum green time settings for traffic actuated control at isolated intersections

IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 164-173

  Zhang, Guohui ^a   Wang, Yinhai ^b  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

Isolated intersections; minimum and maximum green time optimization; probability based models; traffic actuated control

Indexed keywords

ACTUATED CONTROL; CONTROL DELAY; CONTROL OBJECTIVES; DETERMINISTIC MODELS; IMPACT SYSTEM; ISOLATED INTERSECTION; MICROSCOPIC TRAFFIC SIMULATION; MINIMUM AND MAXIMUM GREEN TIME OPTIMIZATION; MULTIPLE CRITERIA; QUEUE LENGTHS; SIGNAL CONTROL; STOCHASTIC FEATURES; SYSTEM OPERATION; TRAFFIC ACTUATED CONTROL; TRAFFIC DEMANDS; TRAFFIC ENGINEERING;

ALGORITHMS; HIGHWAY ENGINEERING; OPTIMIZATION; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; STREET TRAFFIC CONTROL;

TRAFFIC SIGNALS;

EID: 79952073816     PISSN: 15249050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITS.2010.2070795     Document Type: Article

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