Control strategies for dispersing incident-based traffic jams in two-way grid networks

IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 469-481

  Long, Jiancheng ^a   Gao, Ziyou ^b   Orenstein, Penina ^c   Ren, Hualing ^b  

^a BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SETON HALL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Control strategy; gridlock; traffic incident; traffic jams; vehicle movement ban

Indexed keywords

CONTROL STRATEGIES; GRIDLOCK; TRAFFIC INCIDENTS; TRAFFIC JAMS; VEHICLE MOVEMENTS;

ACCIDENTS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; TRAFFIC CONGESTION;

EMERGENCY TRAFFIC CONTROL;

EID: 84861840774     PISSN: 15249050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITS.2011.2171035     Document Type: Article

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