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Congestion is a major problem nowadays. Small to medium level cities often struggle to reduce the congestion, sometimes due to lack of funds to install traffic control systems. This paper presents a cost-effective solution for those cities. We used floating car data to retime the traffic signals leading to less delays.
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We present a rule-based traffic signal retiming strategy by utilizing floating car data. This approach improves the transparency of the control method to the end user or the traffic engineers. It can be implemented at the tactical level of urban traffic control hierarchy in Germany. We present a robust testing solution to evaluate the performance of the traffic control method using software-in-the-loop simulations.
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During this work, I had a chance to work on project VinstaR where we aimed to design cost-effective strategies to manage the traffic. In addition, it was a great pleasure to work in an international team and I am happy that this collaboration brought meaningful outcomes.
Salil Sharma
Technische Universiteit Delft
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This page is a summary of: Controller Independent Software-in-the-Loop Approach to Evaluate Rule-Based Traffic Signal Retiming Strategy by Utilizing Floating Car Data, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, January 2018, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE),
DOI: 10.1109/tits.2018.2877585.
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