Eric Kroes and
Moshe Ben-Akiva, Hague Consulting Group, The Netherlands
Markos Papageorgiou, Technical University of Crete, Greece
Jan Blonk and Jan Giezen, TNO-TPD, The Netherlands
ABSTRACT
Within the Transport sector of the Telematics Applications
Programme initiative of the Fourth Framework, DACCORD is one of the main projects focussed
on dynamic traffic management and control on inter-urban motorways. DACCORD stands for Development
and Application of Co-ordinated Control of Corridors. Its main objective is to design,
implement and validate a practical Dynamic Traffic Management System (DTMS) for integrated
and co-ordinated control of inter-urban motorway corridors. An additional objective is to
further develop an open system architecture for inter-urban traffic management.
The paper provides an introduction of the DACCORD project, and gives an overview of all
the main streams of work combined within the project. The paper refers to related papers
on traffic surveillance analysis, on-line travel time prediction, integrated and
co-ordinated motorway control and evaluation to provide more detail about technical
aspects and results of the project.