The traffic signal control problem for intersections: a review

M Eom, BI Kim - European transport research review, 2020 - Springer
Background The intersection traffic signal control problem (ITSCP) has become even more
important as traffic congestion has been more intractable. The ITSCP seeks an efficient …

Criticism of generally accepted fundamentals and methodologies of traffic and transportation theory: A brief review

BS Kerner - Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2013 - Elsevier
It is explained why the set of the fundamental empirical features of traffic breakdown (a
transition from free flow to congested traffic) should be the empirical basis for any traffic and …

Exploiting the fundamental diagram of urban networks for feedback-based gating

M Keyvan-Ekbatani, A Kouvelas, I Papamichail… - … Research Part B …, 2012 - Elsevier
Traffic signal control for urban road networks has been an area of intensive research efforts
for several decades, and various algorithms and tools have been developed and …

Store-and-forward based methods for the signal control problem in large-scale congested urban road networks

K Aboudolas, M Papageorgiou… - … Research Part C …, 2009 - Elsevier
The problem of designing network-wide traffic signal control strategies for large-scale
congested urban road networks is considered. One known and two novel methodologies, all …

A rolling-horizon quadratic-programming approach to the signal control problem in large-scale congested urban road networks

K Aboudolas, M Papageorgiou, A Kouvelas… - … Research Part C …, 2010 - Elsevier
The paper investigates the efficiency of a recently developed signal control methodology,
which offers a computationally feasible technique for real-time network-wide signal control in …

Adaptive traffic signal control using approximate dynamic programming

C Cai, CK Wong, BG Heydecker - Transportation Research Part C …, 2009 - Elsevier
This paper presents a study on an adaptive traffic signal controller for real-time operation.
The controller aims for three operational objectives: dynamic allocation of green time …

Multiple concentric gating traffic control in large-scale urban networks

M Keyvan-Ekbatani, M Yildirimoglu… - IEEE Transactions …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A new gating strategy for concentric cities based on the notion of the macroscopic or network
fundamental diagram and the feedback-based gating concept is introduced and successfully …

Capacity-aware backpressure traffic signal control

J Gregoire, X Qian, E Frazzoli… - … on Control of …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The control of a network of signalized intersections is considered. Previous work
demonstrates that the so-called backpressure control provides stability guarantees …

A cell-based traffic control formulation: strategies and benefits of dynamic timing plans

HK Lo - Transportation Science, 2001 - pubsonline.informs.org
This study developed a dynamic traffic-control formulation that considers the entire
Fundamental Diagram. This incorporation of the Fundamental Diagram is especially …

Urban congestion gating control based on reduced operational network fundamental diagrams

M Keyvan-Ekbatani, M Papageorgiou… - … Research Part C …, 2013 - Elsevier
Based on the recently proposed concept of an operational urban NFD (network fundamental
diagram) and a feedback gating procedure, it is shown that simple, practicable and efficient …