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

• 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• Peer Reviewed: Not Peer Reviewed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