A new approach for co-operative bus priority at traffic signals

IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 6-14

  Hounsell, Nick ^a   Shrestha, Birendra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Automatic vehicle location (AVL); bus priority; cooperative transport system; differential priority; intelligent transport system (ITS)

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC VEHICLE LOCATIONS; BUS PRIORITY; COOPERATIVE TRANSPORT SYSTEM; DIFFERENTIAL PRIORITY; INTELLIGENT TRANSPORT SYSTEMS;

BUSES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; TRAFFIC SIGNALS;

TRAFFIC CONTROL;

EID: 84857789771     PISSN: 15249050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITS.2011.2172869     Document Type: Article

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