Proceedings of the International Symposium on Traffic Control Systems Held at Berkeley, California on August 6-9, 1979. Volume 2A: Keynote Addresses; Concepts and Strategies

摘要

Contents: A local traffic control policy which automatically maximizes the overall travel capacity of an urban road network; Capacity and timing calculation methods for signalized intersections; A new method of traffic-responsive control of traffic signals; Algorithms for the computer control of urban traffic; Assessment by observation and by simulation studies of the interest of different methods of bus preemption at traffic lights; Strategic concepts in residential neighborhood traffic control; A systematic approach to the derivation of driver information requirements in work zones; Current research in planning work zone traffic control; Advance treatment of no-passing zones for safety; Strategies and effectiveness of traffic control systems on freeways in the Federal Republic of Germany; Self-sufficient control of speed on freeways; Reducing travel time by freeway ramp metering especially when peak traffic demand exceeds corridor capacity; Automatic incident detection; and Incident detection in Europe.