Comparative assessment of traffic control parameters within an UTC-distributed system

Journal of Transportation Engineering

Volumn 140, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Mocofan, Ana Maria Nicoleta ^a   Ghiţǎ, Rǎzvan ^b   López, Vicente Ramón Tomás ^b   Nemţanu, Florin Codruţ ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY POLITEHNICA OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

^b UNIVERSITAT JAUME I   (Spain)

Author keywords

Adaptive operation; Distributed system; Measures of effectiveness; Traffic parameter; Urban traffic control

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894045386     PISSN: 0733947X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)TE.1943-5436.0000634     Document Type: Article

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