A Theory of Traffic Flow in Automated Highway Systems

This paper presents a theory for automated traffic flow, based on abstraction of vehicle activities such as entry, exit and cruising derived from a vehicle's automatic control laws. The theory formulates TMC traffic plans as the specification of the activities and speed of vehicles, and the entry and exit flows for each highway section. The theory permits the study of transient phenomena such as congestion, and TMC feed back traffic rules designed to deal with transients.

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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Publication Date: 1995 Published By: California PATH Program, Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California, Berkeley CA
• Corporate Authors:

  University of California, Berkeley

  California PATH Program, Institute of Transportation Studies
  Richmond Field Station, 1357 South 46th Street
  Richmond, CA  United States  94804-4648

  University of California, Berkeley

  Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
  Berkeley, CA  United States  94720

  California Department of Transportation

  1120 N Street
  Sacramento, CA  United States  95814
• Authors:
  • Broucke, M
  • Varaiya, P P
• Publication Date: 1995

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Pagination: 29 p.
• Serial:
  • PATH Research Report
  • Publisher: University of California, Berkeley
  • ISSN: 1055-1425

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Advanced vehicle control systems; Automated highways; Traffic flow
• Subject Areas: Operations and Traffic Management;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00774415
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: UC Berkeley Transportation Library
• Report/Paper Numbers: UCB-ITS-PRR-95-43
• Files: PATH, TRIS, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Nov 17 1999 12:00AM