THE M-40 AS AN INTELLIGENT AUTOROUTE

The M-40 autoroute is a 61-kilometer (37 mile) ring road around Madrid, and is strategically important because of its role both in the movements of urban, inter-city and inter-community traffic as a great distributor of radial and transversal traffic. This paper will present the implementation of the intelligent management system of dynamic signals installed along the ring-road, based on a detection and traffic measurement sub-system and some incident-detecting algorithm and automatic recommendations for alternative routes. The paper reviews the installation carried out, the computerized management systems, and the algorithms used.

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• Authors:
  • de Ulzurrun Mosquera, J D
• Conference:
  • XIIIth World meeting of the International Road Federation
  • Location: Toronto, Canada
  • Date: 1997-6-16 to 1997-6-20
• Publication Date: 1997

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: n.p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Alternatives analysis; Beltways; Incident detection; Intelligent transportation systems; Intercity travel; Radial travel; Urban highways
• Uncontrolled Terms: Transverse movement
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00750211
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jun 13 1998 12:00AM