Traditionally, traffic assignment and traffic control in general have mostly been performed using optimisation techniques which do not lend themselves to real-time control. This volume presents feedback control techniques for performing traffic assignment in real-time, where traffic diversion control variables are instantaneous functions of sensed traffic variables. The authors outline the whole theory behind Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) which allows traffic variables to be sensed in real time and microprocessors to use the sensed traffic variable input to perform the traffic actuation tasks. They show how to design feedback controllers to perform dynamic traffic routing and assignment, and present the theory of feedback control as applied to this problem, with many new approaches for solving it. Not only is the theory presented but a wide range of information on applications in terms of simulations and deployment.

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Product Description: This volume is a compendium of papers presented during the International Workshop on Air Traffic Management, which took place in Capri, Italy, on September 26-30, 1999. The workshop was organized by Italian National Research Council in co-operation with the University of Rome "Tor Vergata", and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The technical committee on mechatronics formed by the International Federation for the Theory of Machines and Mechanisms, in Prague, Czech Republic, adopted the following definition for the term: Mechatronics is the Synergistic combination of precision mechanical engineering, electronic control and systems thinking in the design products and manufacturing process...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Effective incident detection, response, clearance and recovery from vehicle disablements and accidents can save commuter hours, fuel and money. This book describes an integrated traffic incident management system and related software designed to facilitate inter-agency communication and help transportation officials co-ordinate response activities so that traffic flow is restored to normal as soon as possible...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The sixteen chapters of this completely revised Fifth Edition provide a definitive and detailed survey of all phases of traffic control and highway safety. Three completely new chapters highlight the revision: Street and Highway Safety, Zero Tolerance-Driving Under the Influence, and Speed Management...read more

Product Description: Even to the casual observer of the automotive industry, it is clear that driving in the 21st century will be radically different from driving as we know it today. Significant advances in diverse technologies such as digital maps, communication links, processors, image processing, chipcards, traffic management, and vehicle positioning and tracking, are enabling extensive development of intelligent transport systems (ITS)...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A major strategy to reduce transport congestion and other social costs of transport is to ensure that travellers make the best decisions, based on real time information. A wide range of technological systems have been developed to provide this information, but little is known about how travellers actually respond to it...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Traffic congestion is a key concern in many OECD countries and metropolitan areas. Levels and periods of traffic congestion continue to increase. Congestion affects the movement of people and the flow of goods. Speed, reliability, and cost of urban and intercity freight movements are increasingly affected by congestion...read more

Product Description: This volume contains recent theoretical and empirical results on the study of traffic flows in urban areas, the optimal control and routing of such traffic, and the analysis of the transportation system performance. The 32 papers address a variety of topics on the scientific aspects of transportation phenomena...read more

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Product Description: Over the last three decades, there have been many significant changes in network technologies, architectures, and services. These changes have presented many challenges to the traffic theorists as the equipment has become largely digital, software controllable, more integrated, and highly flexible...read more

Product Description: Logical development of the concepts and applications of traffic stream theory and operations analysis. Includes many worked examples and homework problems. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)