Variable speed limit control design for relieving congestion caused by active bottlenecks

Journal of Transportation Engineering

Volumn 139, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 358-370

  Hadiuzzaman, M ^a   Qiu, Tony Z ^a   Lu, Xiao Yun ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b Department of SSHA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell transmission model; METANET; Microsimulation; Model predictive control; Variable speed limit

Indexed keywords

CELL TRANSMISSION MODEL; FUNDAMENTAL DIAGRAM; METANET; MICROSIMULATION; MICROSIMULATION MODELS; ONLINE COMPUTATIONS; TRAFFIC CHARACTERISTICS; VARIABLE SPEED LIMITS;

DYNAMICS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL; PREDICTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; SPEED CONTROL;

TRAFFIC CONGESTION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MOTORWAY; NUMERICAL MODEL; TRAFFIC CONGESTION; TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT; TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM;

EID: 84878355759     PISSN: 0733947X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)TE.1943-5436.0000507     Document Type: Article

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