TIPPING THE BALANCE : A EUROPEAN TRIAL OF ADVANCED UTC

This article describes BALANCE, a new traffic adaptive signal control method that takes account of new user group requirements. It is traffic responsive and its on-street signal controller has an economic model-based software program. The article also presents an evaluation of BALANCE as it was tested in the Munich COMFORT program.

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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Publication Date: December 1997/January 1998
• Corporate Authors:

  Federal Highway Administration

  Office of International Programs, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590

  Image Sensing Systems, Inc.

  ,    

  Fortran Traffic Systems

  470 Midwest Road
  Toronto, Ontario M1P 4Y5  Canada 

  University of Massachusetts, Amherst

  Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
  130 Natural Resources Road
  Amherst, MA  United States  01003

  Grafe und Unzer GmbH

  ,    

  SIRIT Technologies Inc.

  ,    

  TRANSCOM (Program : New York & New Jersey)

  ,    

  Michigan Department of Transportation

  State Transportation Building, 425 West Ottawa Street, P.O. Box 30050
  Lansing, MI  United States  48909

  Odetics, Inc.

  ,    

  Booz, Allen & Hamilton

  ,    

  Geopak TMS

  ,    

  Texas Department of Transportation

  Ecological Resources Management Branch, Environmental Affairs Division, 11th and Brazos Streets
  Austin, TX  United States  78701

  Southwest Research Institute

  6220 Culebra Road, P.O. Drawer 28510
  San Antonio, TX  United States  78228-0510

  Las Vegas Area Computer Traffic System Project

  ,    

  Ruetz Technologies

  ,    

  ATX Technologies

  ,    

  Pacific Rim Resources

  ,    

  Kimley-Horn and Associates, Incorporated

  ,    

  Oak Ridge National Laboratory

  Department of Energy
  Oak Ridge, TN  United States  37831

  Denmark. Vejdirektoratet

  ,    

  Systor Trondheim AS

  ,    

  Goteborg (Sweden). Trafikkontoret

  ,    

  iMPath Networks

  ,    

  Viggen Corporation

  ,    

  Missouri Department of Transportation

  P.O. Box 270
  Jefferson City, MO  United States  65102

  Science Applications International Corporation

  Moffett Field, CA  United States 

  Perceptics Corporation

  ,    

  Indiana Department of Transportation

  100 N Senate Avenue
  Indianapolis, IN  United States  46204

  Hewlett-Packard Company

  ,    

  Traficon NV

  ,    
• Authors:
  • Toomey, Colin
• Publication Date: 1998

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 51-54
• Serial:
  • Traffic Technology International
  • Publisher: AutoIntermediates Limited
  • ISSN: 1356-9252
  • Serial URL: http://www.ukipme.com/mag_traffic.htm

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Adaptive control; Advanced traffic management systems
• Subject Areas: Operations and Traffic Management;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00787730
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: UC Berkeley Transportation Library
• Files: PATH, USDOT, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Nov 17 2000 12:00AM