Exploiting the fundamental diagram of urban networks for feedback-based gating

Transportation Research Part B: Methodological

Volumn 46, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1393-1403

  Keyvan Ekbatani, Mehdi ^a   Kouvelas, Anastasios ^b   Papamichail, Ioannis ^a   Papageorgiou, Markos ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Feedback control; Gating; Network fundamental diagram; Saturated traffic condition; Traffic signal control

Indexed keywords

FEEDBACK; FEEDBACK CONTROL; HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; MOTOR TRANSPORTATION; OPTIMIZATION; TRAFFIC CONTROL; TRAFFIC SIGNALS;

FEEDBACK CONTROL STRUCTURES; FUNDAMENTAL DIAGRAM; GATING; META-HEURISTIC OPTIMIZATIONS; MICROSCOPIC SIMULATION; REAL-TIME ENVIRONMENT; TRAFFIC CONDITIONS; TRAFFIC SIGNAL CONTROL;

STREET TRAFFIC CONTROL;

ALGORITHM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEURISTICS; MOBILITY; NETWORK ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION; ROAD TRANSPORT; TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT; URBAN TRANSPORT;

AEGEAN ISLANDS; CANEA; CRETE; GREECE;

EID: 84867593143     PISSN: 01912615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trb.2012.06.008     Document Type: Article

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