Reference
B. De Schutter, T. Bellemans, S. Logghe, J. Stada, B. De Moor, and B. Immers,
"Advanced traffic control on highways,"
Journal A, vol.
40, no. 4, pp. 42-51, Dec. 1999.
Abstract
Due to the ever increasing need for transportation, there will be more and
more traffic jams unless some far-reaching measures are taken. There are many
possible ways to reduce congestion (such as building new roads, new pricing
policies, shift of transport from road to train or ship, and so on). However,
since traffic congestion is a pressing problem that has a serious impact on
both the economy and the environment, there certainly is a need for measures
that can be implemented on the short term. In this paper we discuss - from a
systems and control point of view - some of the methods that can be used to
reduce traffic congestion problems. We shall focus on highways and ring roads.
First we briefly discuss the Automated Highway Systems (AHS) framework, which
leads to a reduction of traffic congestion and to a better use of the available
capacity of the transportation network. However, several obstacles still have
to be overcome before AHS can be implemented on a large scale. Therefore, we
will extensively discuss another, more readily implementable step towards the
reduction of traffic congestion, namely the development of advanced traffic
management systems (ATMS), which is the subject of a research project currently
being carried out by the authors. ATMS use advanced modelling, simulation,
optimisation and telecommunication techniques to generate and to implement
various traffic policy measures to reduce traffic congestion.
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@article{DeSBel:99-05,
author = {De Schutter, Bart and Bellemans, Tom and Logghe, Steven and
Stada, Jim and De Moor, Bart and Immers, Ben},
title = {Advanced Traffic Control on Highways},
journal = {Journal A},
volume = {40},
number = {4},
pages = {42--51},
month = dec,
year = {1999}
}