Modeling and implementation of adaptive transit signal priority on actuated control systems

Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 270-284

  Li, Meng ^a   Yin, Yafeng ^b   Zhang, Wei Bin ^a   Zhou, Kun ^a   Nakamura, Hideki ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b J Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUATED CONTROL; ARCHITECTURE DESIGNS; AVERAGE DELAY; BUS DELAYS; DUAL-RING; GREEN SPLITS; NUMERICAL EXAMPLE; OPERATIONAL CONSTRAINTS; OPERATIONAL TEST; OPTIMIZATION MODELS; SIGNAL CONTROL; TRAFFIC DELAYS; TRAFFIC SIGNAL CONTROL SYSTEM; TRANSIT SIGNAL PRIORITIES; TRANSIT VEHICLES; TSP SYSTEMS; WEIGHTED SUM;

ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; STREET TRAFFIC CONTROL;

TRAFFIC SIGNALS;

CONTROL SYSTEM; IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS; NUMERICAL METHOD; OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 79952588847     PISSN: 10939687     EISSN: 14678667     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8667.2010.00677.x     Document Type: Article

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