Comparative field evaluation of the signal control strategy TUC in three traffic networks.

Bielefeldt, Christiane

Abstract

This paper describes how the recently developed network-wide real-time signal control strategy TUC has been implemented in three traffic networks with quite different traffic and control infrastructure characteristics: Chania, Greece (23 junctions); Southampton, U.K. (53 junctions); and Munich, Germany (25 junctions), where it has been compared to the respective resident real-time signal control strategies TASS, SCOOT and BALANCE. After a short outline of TUC, the paper describes the three application networks; the application, demonstration and evaluation conditions; as well as the comparative evaluation results. The main conclusions drawn from this high-effort inter-European undertaking is that TUC is an easy-to-implement, inter-operable, low-cost real-time signal control strategy whose performance, after limited fine-tuning, proved to be better or, at least, similar to the ones achieved by long-standing strategies that were in most cases very well fine-tuned over the years in the specific networks.

Citation

Bielefeldt, C. (2006, January). Comparative field evaluation of the signal control strategy TUC in three traffic networks. Presented at 85th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board

• Conference Name: 85th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board
• Start Date: Jan 22, 2006
• End Date: Jan 26, 2006
• Acceptance Date: Sep 9, 1999
• Publication Date: 2006
• Deposit Date: Jun 9, 2016
• Peer Reviewed: Not Peer Reviewed
• Keywords: Real-time signal control strategy; traffic networks
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/10119