A decentralized control strategy for freeway regulation

N. B. Goldstein and K. S. P. Kumar

Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 1982, vol. 16, issue 4, 279-290

Abstract: A multilevel decentralized control scheme, the cascading technique, with application to the regulation of traffic on an urban freeway is presented. Performance of the decentralized system is compared to the performance of a centralized and a fixed time control structure. It is shown that the decentralized structure performs better than the centralized structure when incidents (lane closures) occur on the freeway. The freeway is modeled in terms of the aggregate variables section density and section speed, and is considered as a system of interconnected subsystems.

Date: 1982
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