AREAWIDE MULTILEVEL TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS

The paper discusses a multilevel approach to areawide traffic control. A four level control unit hierarchy is proposed to provide surveillance and control to all signals in an urban area. Attention is given to hardware requirements, control strategies, and system implementation. A brief discussion of the range of traffic control problems encountered in cities whose population may range from 50,000 to 1,000,000 is presented and the need for a unified concept of traffic control is defined.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Proceedings of the International Federation of Automobile Control/Internatioal Foundation for Information Process/International Federation of Oper Research Society International Symposium: Control in Transportation Systems, Columbus, Ohio, August 9-13, 1976.
• Corporate Authors:

  International Federation of Automatic Control

  EKONO, P.O.B. 27
  Helsinki 13,   Finland 
• Authors:
  • Pinnell, C
  • Wilshire, R L
• Conference:
  • Proceedings of the International Federation of Automobile Control/Internatioal Foundation for Information Process/International Federation of Oper Research Society International Symposium: Control in Transportation Systems, Columbus, Ohio, August 9-13, 19
• Publication Date: 1976

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 339-348

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Control systems; Highway traffic control; Implementation; Information processing; Traffic control; Traffic control devices; Traffic signals; Traffic surveillance; Urban areas
• Uncontrolled Terms: Hardware
• Old TRIS Terms: Traffic control systems
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Research;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00156413
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Engineering Index
• Report/Paper Numbers: Proceeding
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 29 1977 12:00AM