Trying to reach a new and better balance between the conflictinginterests of transportation on one side and the environment on the otherside is the challenge of the Second Transport Structure Plan, which isapproved by Parliament. This plan has three main objectives: improveaccess to urban centres and reduce congestion, contain the growth ofvehicle mileage and improve environmental conditions and traffic safety.Real-time control systems are considered as possibilities to come to abetter utilization of the urban and interurban networks. It was decidedto implement such a system in Nijmegen in order to assess the trafficperformance of an online optimized real-time control system against theexisting control system. This paper describes the implementation andplans for the evaluation of SCOOT in Nijmegen. It was explicitly decidednot to develop a new real-time control system, but to consider thepossibilities and applicability of an existing system
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