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COSMOS - Congestion management strategies and methods in urban sites.

Wood, Keith; Bielefeldt, Christiane; Biora, Fabrizio; Kruse, Gunter

Authors

Keith Wood

Christiane Bielefeldt

Fabrizio Biora

Gunter Kruse



Abstract

The paper describes the strategies for Congestion and Incident Management (CIM) on the basis of Automatic Congestion and Incident Detection (ACID) that COSMOS will develop, implement in SCOOT, UTOPIA and MOTION, and validate and demonstrate in London, Piraeus and Torino. Four levels of operation were defined for CIM: strategies, tactics, tools and realisation. The strategies for CIM form the top level of this hierarchy. They have to reflect the strategic requirements of the system operators. The tactics are the means that can be employed by the strategies to achieve particular goals in particular situations. The tools that are used by the tactics relate to the elements of the signal plan and the ways in which they can be modified. Strategies, tactics and tools are generally common to all three systems, while the realisation of individual strategies and tactical decisions, through the use of particular common sets of tools, will generally be system specific. For the covering abstract, see IRRD 490001.

Citation

Wood, K., Bielefeldt, C., Biora, F., & Kruse, G. (1997). COSMOS - Congestion management strategies and methods in urban sites.

Conference Name 4th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems
Start Date Oct 21, 1997
End Date Aug 24, 1997
Acceptance Date Sep 9, 1999
Publication Date Oct 24, 1997
Deposit Date Jun 10, 2016
Publicly Available Date Jun 10, 2016
Peer Reviewed Not Peer Reviewed
Keywords Urban congestion; traffic management; COSMOS; incident control;
Public URL http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/10121
Contract Date Jun 10, 2016

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