DocumentCode
809826
Title
On optimal ramp control of traffic jam queues
Author
Shaw, Leonard
Author_Institution
Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Volume
17
Issue
5
fYear
1972
fDate
10/1/1972 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
630
Lastpage
637
Abstract
A queuing theory model is developed for the controlled merging of vehicles entering an expressway ramp. The flow of ramp vehicles is restricted in response to downstream congestion or traffic jams. An optimal on-off controller is found for the stochastic problem with random stopping time which results from minimizing the mean sum of the number of cars stopped in the jam and the number of cars diverted from the ramp.
Keywords
On-off control; Optimal stochastic control; Queuing analysis; Road-traffic control; Stochastic optimal control; Merging; Mouth; Optimal control; Queueing analysis; Road accidents; Road vehicles; Stochastic processes; Time measurement; Traffic control; Velocity measurement;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0018-9286
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/TAC.1972.1100093
Filename
1100093
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