Novel freeway traffic control with variable speed limit and coordinated ramp metering

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 2229, 2011, Pages 55-65

  Lu, Xiao Yun ^a   Varaiya, Pravin ^a   Horowitz, Roberto ^b   Su, Dongyan ^a   Shladover, Steven E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGHWAY TRAFFIC CONTROL; MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL; PREDICTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; SPEED CONTROL; TRAFFIC CONGESTION;

CONTROL STRATEGIES; FREEWAY TRAFFIC CONTROLS; LANE REDUCTIONS; LOGICAL APPROACHES; ON-RAMP; RAMP METERING; TIME STEP; TRAFFIC FLOW; VARIABLE SPEED LIMITS; VIRTUAL LANES;

TRAVEL TIME;

EID: 80053099421     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/2229-07     Document Type: Article

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