Urban transportation emissions mitigation: Coupling high-resolution vehicular emissions and traffic models for traffic signal optimization

Transportation Research Part B: Methodological

Volumn 81, Issue , 2015, Pages 520-538

  Osorio, Carolina ^a   Nanduri, Kanchana ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

Microscopic simulation; Signal control; Simulation based optimization; Urban vehicular emissions

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ANALYTICAL MODELS; BUDGET CONTROL; COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; OPTIMIZATION; STREET TRAFFIC CONTROL; TRAVEL TIME; URBAN TRANSPORTATION;

MACROSCOPIC TRAFFIC MODELING; MICROSCOPIC SIMULATION; MICROSCOPIC SIMULATION MODELS; SIGNAL CONTROL; SIMULATION-BASED OPTIMIZATIONS; TRAFFIC SIGNAL OPTIMIZATIONS; TRANSPORTATION OPTIMIZATIONS; VEHICULAR EMISSION;

TRAFFIC SIGNALS;

ALGORITHM; MITIGATION; OPTIMIZATION; SIGNAL; TRAFFIC CONGESTION; TRAFFIC EMISSION; TRANSPORTATION DEVELOPMENT; TRANSPORTATION PLANNING; URBAN TRANSPORT;

EID: 84947487314     PISSN: 01912615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trb.2014.12.007     Document Type: Article

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