5^th Delta Report for DaimlerChrysler AG

  The Co-ordinated Traffic-responsive Urban Control Strategy TUC

  by
Christina Diakaki and Markos Papageorgiou

Dynamic Systems and Simulation Laboratory
Technical University of Crete
73100 Chania, Greece
Phone: +30-821-69324 Fax: +30-821-69568
E-mail: markos [at] dssl.tuc [dot] gr WEB: www.dssl.tuc.gr

December 1999

Contents

2.1 Introduction
2.2 Classification of Control Strategies
2.3 Co-ordinated Traffic-Responsive Control Strategies
2.4 Introduction to the Proposed Methodology

3.1 Introduction
3.2 The Control Design Model
3.3 Regulator Design
3.4 Alternative Multivariable Regulators
3.5 The Gating Feature of the Multivariable Regulators
3.6 Enhancement of the Gating Feature
3.7 Application of Constraints
3.8 Real-Time Measurements

4.1 Introduction
4.2 Application of TUC to the Example Network
4.3 The Simulation Model of the Example Network
4.4 Design Investigations of TUC

4.4.1 Selection of Weighting Matrices
4.4.2 Selection of Control Matrices
4.4.3 Sensitivity Investigations of Selected Control Matrices
4.4.4 Selection of Parameter b for the Enhancement of the Gating Feature of TUC

5.1 Introduction
5.2 Investigations with Direct x-Measurements

5.2.1 Investigations in Various Traffic Conditions
5.2.2 Investigations in Incident Cases

5.3 Investigations with Estimations Instead of Direct x-Measurements

5.3.1 Impact of Detector Locations
5.3.2 Investigations in Various Traffic Conditions and Incident Cases

5.4 Conclusions

7 References