BALANCE AND VARIA: METHODS FOR ADAPTIVE TRAFFIC CONTROL

BALANCE (BALancing Adaptive Network Control mEthod) has been developed within the frame of the CEC-ATT (advanced transport telematics) project Munich-COMFORT to overcome shortcomings of existing methods concerning public transport priority or the consideration of origin-destination information. With cooperation of the administration of the city of Munich and with the support of an industrial partner, BALANCE has been implemented at a test site in Munich and has been evaluated with respect to different reference scenarios. The paper gives an overview on the main ideas the method is built on, describes the field trial, and puts emphasis on the evaluation results. Two scenarios, the existing state-of-the-art vehicle actuated control and BALANCE, are compared by measured field data. To give a reference to international standard, a TRANSYT fixed time control has been adapted to the local situation and was compared by microscopic simulation to both other cases. A sensitivity analysis shows the effects of the mentioned control methods with respect to different performance functions and considering different demand patterns.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Five volumes of papers and one volume of abstracts comprise the published set of conference materials.
• Corporate Authors:

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  TORANOMOM 34 MORI BUILDING 1-25-5
  TORANOMON, MINATOKU, TOKYO 105  Japan 
• Authors:
  • Fiedrich, B
  • Jendryschik, W
  • Wittmann, E
• Conference:
  • Steps Forward. Intelligent Transport Systems World Congress
  • Location: Yokohama, Japan
  • Date: 1995-11-9 to 1995-11-11
• Publication Date: 1995-11

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 2356

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Adaptive control; Bus priority; Field tests; Intelligent transportation systems; Public transit; Sensitivity analysis; Simulation; Telematics
• Geographic Terms: Germany
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00724505
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: Volume 5
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 2 1996 12:00AM