Urban congestion gating control based on reduced operational network fundamental diagrams

Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies

Volumn 33, Issue , 2013, Pages 74-87

  Keyvan Ekbatani, Mehdi ^a   Papageorgiou, Markos ^a   Papamichail, Ioannis ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Feedback control; Gating; Operational network fundamental diagram; Signal traffic control; Sparse real time measurement; Urban traffic congestion

Indexed keywords

FEEDBACK; FEEDBACK CONTROL; GATING AND FEEDING; MOTOR TRANSPORTATION; TIME MEASUREMENT; TRAVEL TIME;

FUNDAMENTAL DIAGRAM; GATING; MICROSCOPIC SIMULATION; NETWORK THROUGHPUT; OPERATIONAL NETWORK; REAL TIME MEASUREMENTS; TRAVEL TIME RELIABILITY; URBAN TRAFFIC CONGESTION;

TRAFFIC CONGESTION;

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; MEASUREMENT METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLANNING METHOD; REAL TIME; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; TRAFFIC CONGESTION; TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT; TRAVEL TIME; URBAN AREA;

AEGEAN ISLANDS; CANEA; CRETE [GREECE]; GREECE;

EID: 84878887814     PISSN: 0968090X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trc.2013.04.010     Document Type: Article

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