Simulation investigations of the traffic-responsive urban control strategy TUC

Author

Dinopoulou, Vaya ; Diakaki, Christina ; Papageorgiou, Markos

Author_Institution

Dynamic Syst. & Simulation Lab., Tech. Univ. of Crete, Chania, Greece

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

458

Lastpage

463

Abstract

The paper presents the basic characteristics of TUC, a recently developed traffic-responsive urban control strategy. Based on a store-and-forward type of modelling and using well-known methods of the automatic control theory, the approach followed by TUC designs (off-line) and employs (online) a multivariable regulator for traffic-responsive coordinated network-wide signal control. Simulation investigations demonstrate the strategy´s high efficiency. Summarised conclusions are presented, and future work is outlined

Keywords

digital simulation; multivariable control systems; optimal control; road traffic; signalling; traffic control; TUC; automatic control theory; multivariable regulator; optimal control; traffic lights; traffic signals; traffic-responsive coordinated network-wide signal control; traffic-responsive urban control strategy; Automatic control; Centralized control; Cities and towns; Communication system traffic control; Control systems; Optimal control; Regulators; Telematics; Testing; Traffic control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2000. Proceedings. 2000 IEEE

Conference_Location

Dearborn, MI

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5971-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ITSC.2000.881110

Filename

881110