Measuring signalized intersection performance in real-time with traffic sensors

Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems: Technology, Planning, and Operations

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 304-316

  Zheng, Jianyang ^a   Ma, Xiaolei ^b   Wu, Yao Jan ^c   Wang, Yinhai ^b  

^a Maryland State Highway Administration ^*  (United States)

^b University of Washington   (United States)

^c University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Control Delay; Performance Measurement; Queue Length; Signalized Intersections; Traffic Detector

Indexed keywords

CONTROL DELAY; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENTS; QUEUE LENGTHS; SIGNALIZED INTERSECTION; TRAFFIC DETECTORS;

ALGORITHMS; CONTROL SYSTEM SYNTHESIS; EXPERIMENTS; IMAGE PROCESSING; QUEUEING THEORY; TIME DELAY;

TRAFFIC SIGNALS;

ALGORITHM; IMAGE PROCESSING; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; REAL TIME; SENSOR; TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT; TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE; TRANSPORTATION SAFETY; VIDEOGRAPHY;

EID: 84889861149     PISSN: 15472450     EISSN: 15472442     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15472450.2013.771105     Document Type: Article

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