Self-Organizing Traffic Lights: A Realistic Simulation

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Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 41-50

  Cools, Seung Bae ^a   Gershenson, Carlos ^a   D’Hooghe, Bart ^a  

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Author keywords

Granular Flow; Green Light; Green Wave; Realistic Simulation; Side Street

Indexed keywords

EID: 85078164582     PISSN: 16103947     EISSN: 21978441     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-84628-982-8_3     Document Type: Chapter

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