Online traffic light control through gradient estimation using stochastic fluid models

IFAC Proceedings Volumes (IFAC-PapersOnline)

Volumn 16, Issue , 2005, Pages 90-95

  Panayiotou, Christos G ^a   Howell, William C ^b   Fu, Michael ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^b Bldg 142   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Perturbation analysis; Stochastic approximation; Traffic control

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; PLASMA FLOW; STOCHASTIC CONTROL SYSTEMS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; TRAFFIC CONTROL;

GRADIENT ESTIMATION; NUMERICAL RESULTS; ON-LINE TRAFFIC; PERTURBATION ANALYSIS; STOCHASTIC APPROXIMATIONS; STOCHASTIC FLUID MODELS; TRAFFIC LIGHT CONTROLLER; TRAFFIC SYSTEMS;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

EID: 79960728491     PISSN: 14746670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3182/20050703-6-cz-1902.02038     Document Type: Conference Paper

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