OPTIMUM SPLIT OF SIGNAL CYCLE TIME FOR ROAD JUNCTION WITHIN AN URBAN NETWORK

A method for evaluating the split of cycle time of a junction in an urban traffic network is proposed. The technique seeks to reduce the magnitude of the queues left at the end of a cycle using a concept based on the theory of feedback. This concept, referred to as the self-reflective cycle, uses the feedback of the predicted end of cycle queue to the start of the cycle to yield a value of split. Split is subsequently optimized relative to a criterion function based on delay and stops. The method is well suited to on-line control. /Author/

• Corporate Authors:

  Pergamon Press, Incorporated

  Maxwell House, Fairview Park
  Elmsford, NY  United States  10523
• Authors:
  • Macload, C J
  • Al-Khalili, A J
• Publication Date: 1977-6

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: p. 183-188
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research /UK/
  • Volume: 11
  • Issue Number: 3
  • Publisher: Pergamon Press, Incorporated

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Computers; Feedback control; Queuing; Signalized intersections; Stopped time delays; Traffic control; Traffic delays; Traffic signal cycle; Urban areas
• Uncontrolled Terms: Feedback
• Old TRIS Terms: On line computers
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00163634
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: Analytic
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 29 1977 12:00AM