Sponsor
This project was partial support from the National Institute for Transportation and Communities (NITC; grant number 1165) a U.S. DOT University Transportation Center, and the National Science Foundation (NSF; Grant number BCS-123456).
Document Type
Report
Publication Date
4-2019
Subjects
Traffic signs and signals -- Control systems, Data transmission systems -- Management, Traffic congestion, Consensus (Social sciences), Electronic traffic controls
Abstract
We introduce a model for traffic signal management based on network consensus control principles. The underlying principle in a consensus approach is that traffic signal cycles are adjusted in a distributed way so as to achieve desirable ratios of queue lengths throughout the street network. This approach tends to reduce traffic congestion due to queue saturation at any particular city block and it appears less susceptible to congestion due to unexpected traffic loads on the street grid. We developed simulation tools based on the MATLAB computing environment to analyze the use of the mathematical consensus approach to manage the signal control on an urban street network.
DOI
10.15760/trec.213
Persistent Identifier
https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/28428
Recommended Citation
Lafferriere, Gerardo. Traffic Signal Consensus Control. NITC-RR-1165. Portland, OR: Transportation Research and Education Center (TREC), 2019. https://doi.org/10.15760/trec.213
Description
This is a final report, NITC-RR-1165, from the NITC program of TREC at Portland State University, and can be found online at: https://trec.pdx.edu/research/project/1165
The Project Brief associated with this research can be found at: https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/28422