International comparative field evaluation of a traffic-responsive signal control strategy in three cities

Authors

E. Kosmatopoulos
M. Papageorgiou
C. Bielefeldt
V. Dinopoulou
R. Morris
J. Muerk
A. Richards
F. Weichenmeier

Document Type

Journal Article

Publication Date

6-2006

Subject Area

economics - appraisal/evaluation, operations - traffic, place - urban

Keywords

urban traffic control systems, traffic-resposive signal control, feedback control

Abstract

The recently developed network-wide real-time signal control strategy TUC has been implemented in three traffic networks with quite different traffic and control infrastructure characteristics: Chania, Greece (23 junctions); Southampton, UK (53 junctions); and Munich, Germany (25 junctions), where it has been compared to the respective resident real-time signal control strategies TASS, SCOOT and BALANCE. After a short outline of TUC, the paper describes the three application networks; the application, demonstration and evaluation conditions; as well as the comparative evaluation results. The main conclusions drawn from this high-effort inter-European undertaking is that TUC is an easy-to-implement, inter-operable, low-cost real-time signal control strategy whose performance, after very limited fine-tuning, proved to be better or, at least, similar to the ones achieved by long-standing strategies that were in most cases very well fine-tuned over the years in the specific networks.

Rights

Permission to publish the abstract given by Elsevier, copyright remains with them.

Comments

Transportation Research Part A Home Page: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/09658564

Recommended Citation

Kosmatopoulos, E., Papageorgiou, M., Bielefeldt, C., Dinopoulou, V., Morris, R., Mueck, J., Richards, A., Weichenmeier, F. (2006). International comparative field evaluation of a traffic-responsive signal control strategy in three cities. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 40(5), 399-413.