A hybrid strategy for real-time traffic signal control of urban road networks

IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 884-894

  Kouvelas, Anastasios ^a   Aboudolas, Konstantinos ^b   Papageorgiou, Markos ^a   Kosmatopoulos, Elias B ^c  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES INSTITUTE   (Greece)

^c DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Real time signal control; traffic signal control; Traffic responsive Urban Control (TUC) signal control strategy; Webster formula

Indexed keywords

FIELD APPLICATION; HYBRID STRATEGIES; REAL TIME TRAFFICS; REAL-TIME OPERATION; REAL-TIME SIGNALS; SIMULATION EXPERIMENTS; TRAFFIC CONDITIONS; TRAFFIC SIGNAL CONTROL; TRAFFIC-RESPONSIVE URBAN CONTROL (TUC) SIGNAL CONTROL STRATEGY; URBAN ROAD NETWORKS; WEBSTER FORMULA;

DROPS; HIGHWAY TRAFFIC CONTROL; MOTOR TRANSPORTATION; STREET TRAFFIC CONTROL; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

TRAFFIC SIGNALS;

EID: 80052354960     PISSN: 15249050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITS.2011.2116156     Document Type: Article

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