Reference
A. Hegyi, T. Bellemans, and B. De Schutter, "Freeway traffic management and
control," in
Encyclopedia of Complexity and Systems
Science (
R. A. Meyers, ed.), New
York, New York: Springer, ISBN 978-0-387-30440-3, pp. 3943-3964, 2009.
Abstract
The goal of this chapter is to provide an overview of dynamic traffic control
techniques described in the literature and applied in practice.
Dynamic traffic control is the term to indicate a collection
of tools, procedures, and methods that are used to intervene in traffic in
order to improve the traffic flow on the short term, i.e., ranging from minutes
to hours. The nature of the improvement may include increased safety, higher
traffic flows, shorter travel times, more stable traffic flows, more reliable
travel times, or reduced emissions and noise production. The tools used for
this purpose are in general changeable signs (including traffic signals,
dynamic speed limit signs, and changeable message signs), radio broadcast
messages, or human traffic controllers at the location of interest. Moreover,
currently the possibilities of assisting, informing, and guiding drivers via
in-car systems are also being explored. The term
dynamic
traffic management includes besides dynamic traffic control also the
management of emergency services and non-automated procedures (such as the
implementation of predefined traffic control scenarios during special events),
typically performed in traffic control centers. However, in this chapter the
focus is on automatic control methods. Furthermore, this chapter deals
exclusively with dynamic freeway traffic control techniques.
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@incollection{HegBel:07-028,
author = {Hegyi, Andreas and Bellemans, Tom and De Schutter, Bart},
title = {Freeway Traffic Management and Control},
booktitle = {Encyclopedia of Complexity and Systems Science},
editor = {Meyers, Robert A.},
publisher = {Springer},
address = {New York, New York},
pages = {3943--3964},
year = {2009}
}