A continuous-flow-intersection-lite design and traffic control for oversaturated bottleneck intersections

Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies

Volumn 56, Issue , 2015, Pages 18-33

  Sun, Weili ^a   Wu, Xinkai ^a   Wang, Yunpeng ^a   Yu, Guizhen ^a  

^a BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Capacity analysis; Continuous flow intersection; Multi objective mixed integer programming; Oversaturation; Signal control; Unconventional intersection design

Indexed keywords

INTEGER PROGRAMMING; TRAFFIC SIGNALS;

CAPACITY ANALYSIS; CONTINUOUS FLOW INTERSECTIONS; INTERSECTION DESIGN; MIXED INTEGER PROGRAMMING; OVERSATURATION; SIGNAL CONTROL;

INTERSECTIONS;

DESIGN; TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT; TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE; URBAN AREA; URBAN TRANSPORT;

EID: 84925780958     PISSN: 0968090X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trc.2015.03.011     Document Type: Article

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