THE COMPUTER AGAINST MOTORWAY CONGESTION. TEST OPERATION WITH COMPUTER OPERATED CHANGEABLE TRAFFIC SIGNS

COMPUTER GEGEN AUTOBAHNSTAUUNGEN. VERSUCHSBETRIEB MIT RECHNERGESTEURERTEN WECHSELWEGWEISERN

Within the framework of a Federal ministerial masterplan, a test area has been set up in the motorway network Rhein/Main in the Frankfurt region. This involves the use of a Siemen's traffic computer which evaluates current traffic data and distributes uneven traffic flow from overloaded sections by means of a changeable traffic sign at the motorway intersections. From the information derived from these changeable signs the driver can divert away from overloaded stretches to neighbouring motorway routes and so help to avoid traffic congestion, loss of time and accidents. /TRRL/

Corporate Authors:
Verlaggsgesellschaft mbH und Co. KG

Juliusstr. 2, Postfach 19
6200 Wiesbaden 1, Germany
Publication Date: 1976-5

Language

German

Media Info

Features: Photos;
Pagination: p. 173
Serial:
- Polizei Technik Verkehr
- Volume: 21
- Issue Number: 5
- Publisher: Hannes Schmitt-Horr Verlag

Subject/Index Terms

TRT Terms: Drivers; Freeways; Information management; Information processing; Information, data, and knowledge; Intersections; Networks; Prevention; Productivity; Safety; Testing; Tests; Traffic congestion; Traffic control; Traffic flow; Traffic signal control systems; Traffic signs; Urban areas; Variable message signs; Variables
Uncontrolled Terms: Time savings
ITRD Terms: 632: Congestion (traffic); 8655: Data processing; 1772: Driver; 8555: Information documentation; 2752: Motorway; 6255: Test; 654: Traffic control; 553: Traffic sign; 9086: Variability
Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Safety and Human Factors; Security and Emergencies; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

Accession Number: 00170316
Record Type: Publication
Source Agency: Bundesanstalt für Straßenwesen (BASt)
Files: ITRD, TRIS
Created Date: Jun 28 1978 12:00AM