A case study of evaluating traffic signal control systems using computational experiments

IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1220-1226

  Zhu, Fenghua ^a   Li, Guoxi ^b   Li, Zhenjiang ^a   Chen, Cheng ^a   Wen, Ding ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION   (China)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Artificial transportation systems (ATSs); communication interface; computational experiment; evaluation; traffic signal control system (TSCS)

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION INTERFACE; COMPUTATIONAL EXPERIMENT; EVALUATION; TRAFFIC SIGNAL CONTROL SYSTEM (TSCS); TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM;

COMMUNICATION; CONTROL SYSTEMS; TRAFFIC SIGNALS; TRANSPORTATION;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 80052873802     PISSN: 15249050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITS.2011.2157691     Document Type: Article

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