TUC and the SMART NETS project

Author

Bielefeldt, Christiane ; Diakaki, Christina ; Papageorgiou, Markos

Author_Institution

Napier Univ. of Edinburgh, UK

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

55

Lastpage

60

Abstract

The new-generation, network-wide signal control strategy TUC (traffic-responsive urban control) has been first developed within the European Transport Telematics project TABASCO and later been improved and validated with further simulations. TUC is particularly designed for saturated traffic conditions, where other UTC systems are known to fail or perform poorly. TUC formulates a linear-quadratic optimal control problem based on store-and-forward mathematical modelling. Initial results from a small-scale field-application in Glasgow (Scotland) and the simulations carried out were so encouraging that TUC is now going to be applied and demonstrated on a large scale in the cities of Chania (Greece), Munich (Germany) and Southampton (UK) in the SMART NETS project, which is co-funded by the European Commission in the framework of their 5th Framework Programme of Research within the IST Programme

Keywords

digital simulation; linear quadratic control; project engineering; road traffic; signalling; traffic control; traffic engineering computing; transportation; European Transport Telematics project; SMART NETS project; TABASCO; TUC; linear quadratic control; optimal control; saturated traffic conditions; simulation; traffic-responsive urban control; transportation; Automatic generation control; Cities and towns; Communication system traffic control; Large-scale systems; Mathematical model; Optimal control; Research and development; Telecommunication traffic; Telematics; Traffic control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2001. Proceedings. 2001 IEEE

Conference_Location

Oakland, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7194-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ITSC.2001.948629

Filename

948629