Performance of a switching policy applied to a set of intersections.

Author(s)
Hartley, M.G.
Year
Abstract

This paper describes simulation experiments which relate to single-direction flow between signalised intersections in which the flow follows the diffusion theory of Pacey. The paper describes an extension of the Dunne-Potts control policy which deals well with such flow and shows that, provided care is taken in the selection of red-time for the preferred direction, mean queue length and mean delay may be optimised. Under these circumstances signal switching "pulls-into-step" automatically, with offset approximately equal to mean transient-time between intersections.

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A 3479 T
Source

Transportation Research, Vol. 3 (1969), No. 1 (April), p. 91-100

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