Reference
B. De Schutter and B. De Moor, "Optimal traffic light control for a single
intersection,"
European Journal of Control, vol. 4, no.
3, pp. 260-276, 1998.
Abstract
In this paper we consider an intersection of two two-way streets with
controllable traffic lights on each corner. We construct a model that describes
the evolution of the queue lengths (as continuous variables) in each lane as a
function of time. We discuss how optimal and suboptimal traffic light switching
schemes (with possibly variable cycle lengths) for this system can be
determined. We show that for a special class of objective functions, an optimal
traffic light switching scheme can be computed very efficiently. The main
difference of the approach presented in this paper and most other existing
methods is that we allow the green-amber-red cycle time to vary from one cycle
to another.
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Addendum
- B. De Schutter and B. De Moor, "Optimal traffic light control for a single intersection: Addendum," Tech. report 96-90a, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, 19 pp., Jan. 1998. (abstract, bibtex, report (pdf))
BibTeX
@article{DeSDeM:96-90,
author = {De Schutter, Bart and De Moor, Bart},
title = {Optimal Traffic Light Control for a Single Intersection},
journal = {European Journal of Control},
volume = {4},
number = {3},
pages = {260--276},
year = {1998}
}