OPAC: A DEMAND-RESPONSIVE STRATEGY FOR TRAFFIC SIGNAL CONTROL

Optimization Policies for Adaptive Control (OPAC) is a computational strategy for real-time demand-responsive traffic signal control. It has the following features: (a) It provides performance results that approach the theoretical optimum, (b) it requires on-line data that can be readily obtained from upstream link detectors, (c) it is suitable for implementation on existing microprocessors, and (d) it forms a building block for demand-responsive decentralized control in a network. Studies undertaken in the development of this strategy and the testing of its performance via the NETSIM simulation model are described.

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• Authors:
  • Gartner, Nathan H
• Conference:
  • 62nd Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board
  • Location: Washington District of Columbia, United States
  • Date: 1983-1-17 to 1983-1-21
• Publication Date: 1983

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 75-81
• Monograph Title: URBAN TRAFFIC SYSTEMS
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Record
  • Issue Number: 906
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0361-1981

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Demand responsive transportation; Microprocessors; Optimization; Signalization; Traffic simulation
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00380162
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0309035201
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Dec 30 1983 12:00AM