DESIGNING AND TESTING OF TRAFFIC CONTROL

ONTWERPEN EN TESTEN VAN REGELINGEN

In setting up traffic control for a junction the designer should have the aim to get an optimum within certain limits regarding the safety, the traffic flow, priority and fixed time control. General rules cannot be given. The rules for control are mainly determined by local circumstances, policy making authorities, police considerations and the conceptions of public transport administrators. For the design of such a traffic control the microcomputer can be a good aid, as also for the testing and evaluation of the design. In this article an overview is given of which activities per phase should take place, how far the microcomputer can be used and which software can be used. (TRRL)

• Supplemental Notes:
  • This paper was presented at the Congress on the use of the Microcomputer in Traffic and Transport, held in Amsterdam, April 19, 1984.
• Corporate Authors:

  Royal Dutch Touring Club ANWB

  Wassenaarseweg 220, P.O. Box 93200
  The Hague,   Netherlands 
• Authors:
  • BOUMAN, G J
• Publication Date: 1984

Language

• Dutch

Media Info

• Features: Figures;
• Pagination: p. 45-47
• Monograph Title: THE MICROCOMPUTER IN TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT
• Serial:
  • Publication of: AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety
  • Publisher: AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Bus priority; Computer aided design; Computer programs; Conferences; Highway design; Information processing; Intersections; Microcomputers; Minicomputers; Pretimed traffic signal controllers; Traffic actuated controllers; Traffic control; Traffic flow; Traffic safety; Traffic signal preemption
• Uncontrolled Terms: Use
• Old TRIS Terms: Fixed time controller; Traffic control systems
• ITRD Terms: 8525: Conference; 8655: Data processing; 8673: Digital computer; 2855: Highway design; 455: Junction; 8645: Software; 654: Traffic control; 671: Traffic flow; 9084: Use; 557: Vehicle actuated
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Public Transportation; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00392013
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Institute for Road Safety Research, SWOV
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Mar 29 1985 12:00AM