SOME ASPECTS OF A SWITCHING POLICY FOR COMMUTER FLOW

A WIDE RANGE OF SIGNAL SWITCHING POLICIES MAY BE ADOPTED FOR CONTROL OF TRAFFIC FLOW BETWEEN A PAIR OF INTERSECTIONS. ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT TRAFFIC SITUATIONS IS THAT IN WHICH RUSH-HOUR COMMUTER TRAFFIC TRAVELS TOWARDS OR AWAY FROM A CITY CENTER ALONG RADIAL ROADS. UNDER THESE CIRCUMSTANCES OPPOSING AND TANGENTIAL FLOW MAY BE LIGHT. EARLIER PAPERS HAVE SHOWN THAT A MODIFIED FORM OF THE DUNNE-POTTS SWITCHING POLICY MIGHT BE APPLIED TO PAIRS OF INTERSECTIONS CARRYING COMMUTER FLOW. EFFICIENT AND FLEXIBLE OPERATION OF THE SYSTEM UNDER A WIDE VARIETY OF FLOW CONDITIONS, AND WITH THE MINIMUM OF COMPUTER SURVEILLANCE, WAS DEMONSTRATED. RESULTS OF FURTHER SIMULATION EXPERIMENTS ARE REPORTED AND DISCUSSED AND TENTA- TIVE SOLUTIONS OF SOME OF THE PRACTICAL PROBLEMS ASSOCIATED WITH THE PROPOSED SCHEME. /AUTHOR/

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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Vol 3, No 4, PP 317-334
• Authors:
  • Hartley, M G
• Publication Date: 1969-11

Media Info

• Serial:
  • Transportation Science
  • Publisher: Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
  • ISSN: 0041-1655
  • Serial URL: http://transci.journal.informs.org/

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Commuters; Information processing; Intersections; Peak hour traffic; Peak periods; Radial highways; Switching; Traffic flow; Traffic signal control systems; Traffic simulation; Traffic surveillance
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Passenger Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00225629
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 6 1970 12:00AM