Towards a practical application of model predictive control to suppress shock waves on freeways

2007 European Control Conference, ECC 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1764-1771

  Hegyi, A ^a   Burger, M ^a   De Schutter, B ^a,b   Hellendoorn, J ^a   Van Den Boom, T J J ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

dynamic speed limits; freeway traffic control; model predictive control; shock waves

Indexed keywords

PREDICTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; SHOCK WAVES; TRAFFIC CONGESTION; TRAVEL TIME;

DYNAMIC SPEED; FREEWAY TRAFFIC CONTROLS; MICROSIMULATION MODELING; MICROSIMULATION MODELS; REAL-WORLD; TRAFFIC JAMS; TRAFFIC SYSTEMS;

MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL;

EID: 84927732945     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.23919/ecc.2007.7069058     Document Type: Conference Paper

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