THE TORONTO SYSTEM: INTERSECTION EVALUATION AND CONTROL

A COMPUTERIZED SYSTEM FOR CONTROL OF SOME 700 INTERSECTIONS, USING ABOUT 500 DETECTORS, IS DESCRIBED. THE METHOD FOR INTERSECTION EVALUATION IS BASED ON DETECTION OF A QUEUE OF VEHICLES. METHODS BY WHICH CONGESTION IS CALCULATED ARE OUTLINED. THE MOST SUCCESSFUL TRAFFIC CONTROL METHOD IS A CONSTANT CYCLE LENGTH VARIABLE SPLIT MODE, CALLED TR2, AND ITS OPERATION IS DISCUSSED. /HSL/

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Vol 39, No 12, PP 28-30
• Authors:
  • Whitehead, D W
• Publication Date: 1969-9

Media Info

• Serial:
  • Traffic Engineering, Inst Traffic Engr

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automatic control; Detection and identification; Detectors; Electronic control; Information processing; Intersections; Queuing; Traffic congestion; Traffic control; Traffic signal timing; Vehicle detectors
• Old TRIS Terms: Traffic control systems
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00225620
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Highway Safety Literature
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Mar 19 1971 12:00AM