ON THE APPLICATION OF A RESPONSE SURFACE METHODOLOGY TO TRAFFIC SIGNAL SETTINGS

The author discusses a response surface methodology put forward by Montgomery, Talavage and Mullen in 1972 as an aid to improving traffic signal settings in a street network. As an example of this approach these authors applied the methodology to a six-intersection street network, and defined 15 different problems for the network involving both controllable and fixed variables. Some comments concerning the results of the example and the approach in general are presented in this short communication. It is suggested that more effort will be required to apply effectively such a methodology in the traffic systems field. /TRRL/

• Corporate Authors:

  Pergamon Press, Incorporated

  Maxwell House, Fairview Park
  Elmsford, NY  United States  10523
• Authors:
  • Gartner, N H
• Publication Date: 1976

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 39-60
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research /UK/
  • Volume: 10
  • Publisher: Pergamon Press, Incorporated

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Intersections; Mathematical models; Signalized intersections; Traffic signal cycle; Traffic signals
• ITRD Terms: 576: Cycle (traffic signals); 455: Junction; 6473: Mathematical model; 565: Traffic signal
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00137769
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport and Road Research Laboratory (TRRL)
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Apr 13 1977 12:00AM