Browsing by Subject "Traffic control"
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Design and evaluation of a roadway controller for freeway traffic
(2005)In this paper, a roadway controller that optimally coordinates speed limits and ramp metering to improve freeway traffic efficiency is designed using the Model Predictive Control (MPC) methodology. The performance of the ...
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Environmental Impact of Combined Variable Speed Limit and Lane Change Control: A Comparison of MOVES and CMEM Model
(2016)Highway congestion is detrimental to traffic mobility and has negative impact on the environment. Variable speed limit (VSL) control is an approach that aims to reduce the impact of congestion by controlling the speed of ...
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An integrated roadway controller and its evaluation by microscopic simulator VISSIM
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2015)A roadway control system that integrates variable speed limits and ramp metering is designed to relieve congestion, suppress shock waves and improve safety on a freeway stretch. The speed control design is only based on ...
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Intelligent driver assist system for urban driving
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2016)Driving in an urban environment is hectic and often adventurous. Getting accurate routing instructions, finding parking spots, receiving customized information that helps individual drivers reach their destination will ...
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Intelligent vehicle: Closing the loop with the highway
(2006)Vehicle intelligence has been advocated as a potential way of improving safety, driver comfort, traffic flow characteristics and efficiency in general. Despite considerable research efforts in vehicle technologies, vehicles ...
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Location-aware services over vehicular ad-hoc networks using car-to-car communication
(2007)Recent advances in wireless inter-vehicle communication systems enable the establishment of Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANET) and create significant opportunities for the deployment of a wide variety of applications and ...
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Longitudinal control of heavy trucks in mixed traffic: Environmental and fuel economy considerations
(2006)In this paper, longitudinal vehicle-following controllers for heavy trucks with different spacing policies are designed, analyzed, simulated, and experimentally tested, and their performance in mixed traffic with passenger ...
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Longitudinal control of heavy trucks: Environmental and fuel economy considerations
(2004)In this paper we design, analyze, simulate and experimentally test longitudinal vehicle following controllers for heavy trucks with different spacing policies and evaluate their performance in mixed traffic with passenger ...
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Multimodal Dynamic Freight Load Balancing
(2016)The urban traffic network has temporal and spatial characteristics whose changing conditions have often unpredictable effects on the flow of loads that include passengers and freight. As a result, the current traffic network ...
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Real-time parallel parameter estimators for a second-order macroscopic traffic flow model
(2006)The on-line estimation of traffic flow characteristics could be used for traffic control, incident management etc. This paper presents a real-time parameter estimation scheme based on a second-order macroscopic traffic ...
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Roadway traffic controller design for automated highway systems
(IEEE, 1994)For manual driving, the traffic flow is often irregular, unstable leading to congestion and to low traffic flow rate during minor incidents. These irregularities are due to variation of vehicle speeds and headways that are ...
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Simulation models for evaluation of terminal operations and traffic flow on adjacent road network
(2009)The goods movement via terminals at ports is a complex operation as it involves use of different modes of transport that includes surface and marine. In this paper, we present three simulation models which can be used to ...
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Traffic Flow Prediction for Road Transportation Networks With Limited Traffic Data
(2015)Obtaining accurate information about current and near-term future traffic flows of all links in a traffic network has a wide range of applications, including traffic forecasting, vehicle navigation devices, vehicle routing, ...
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A Traffic Light Signal Control System with Truck Priority
(2016)This paper proposed and evaluated a traffic light control system for signalized urban intersections that aims to benefit all traffic flows involved by giving priority to trucks. The problem is motivated from the observation ...