FireFly: A Synchronization Strategy for Urban Traffic Control

Abstract

The researchers presented a synchronization strategy for urban traffic based on triggering events initiated by traffic lights that improves over existing algorithms. Simulations of urban traffic on a massively parallel machine provide a quantitative measure of the effectiveness of this strategy and allow for comparisons with existing ones. They also showed that augmenting general control procedures with vehicle sensors that provide a measure of queue length in the streets does not lead to improved performance over existing strategies.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 14, 1992
Accession Number
ADA270872

Entities

People

  • Baldo Faieta
  • Bernardo A. Huberman

Organizations

  • PARC

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Algorithms
  • Classification
  • Computations
  • Computer Simulations
  • Computers
  • Control Systems
  • Detectors
  • Grids
  • Instructions
  • Intervals
  • Motion Detectors
  • Security
  • Simulations
  • Steady State

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Aviation Safety and Air Traffic Management
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Parallel and Distributed Computing.