Integrated ramp metering and variable speed limit control of motorway traffic flow

IFAC Proceedings Volumes (IFAC-PapersOnline)

Volumn 17, Issue 1 PART 1, 2008, Pages

  Papamichail, Ioannis ^a   Kampitaki, Katerina ^a   Papageorgiou, Markos ^a   Messmer, Albert ^a  

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Author keywords

Automatic control, optimization, real time operations in transportation; Modeling and simulation of transportation systems

Indexed keywords

ADDITIONAL CONTROL; AGGREGATE TRAFFIC; AUTOMATIC CONTROL, OPTIMIZATION, REAL-TIME OPERATIONS IN TRANSPORTATION; CONTROL MEASURES; DISCRETE-TIME OPTIMAL CONTROL PROBLEM; ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLES; LARGE-SCALE NETWORK; MODELING AND SIMULATION OF TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS; MOTORWAY NETWORKS; QUANTITATIVE MODELS; RAMP METERING; SECOND ORDERS; TRAFFIC FLOW; TRAFFIC FLOW MODELS; VARIABLE SPEED LIMITS;

AUTOMATION; CONTROL; HIGHWAY TRAFFIC CONTROL; INTERNET; OPTIMIZATION; PROCESS CONTROL; SIMULATORS; SPEED CONTROL; TRAFFIC SURVEYS;

REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

EID: 79961019507     PISSN: 14746670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3182/20080706-5-KR-1001.2388     Document Type: Conference Paper

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