Agent Based Velocity Control of Highway Systems

Abstract

In this paper we present a hybrid systems approach to freeway traffic control. We introduce a model of traffic which includes both vehicles and voids, where a void is a unit of space greater than the normal following distance between vehicles. The introduction of voids allows us to successfully model traffic flow via a wave model. We discuss the fundamentals of the Multiple Agent Hybrid Control Architecture which was used to implement our control of freeway traffic and the results of a simulation of our control. The main conclusions of our simulation is that one can significantly increase traffic throughput by controlling only 5-9% of the vehicles.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1997
Accession Number
ADA344351

Entities

People

  • A. Nerode
  • J. B. Remmel
  • W. Kohn

Organizations

  • University of California, Berkeley

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Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

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  • Accidents
  • Automata
  • Automata Theory
  • Coding
  • Computational Science
  • Control Systems
  • Differential Equations
  • Equations
  • Geometry
  • Lagrangian Functions
  • Power Series
  • Side Effects
  • Simulations
  • Specifications
  • Throughput
  • Topology
  • Trajectories

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

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  • Aviation Safety and Air Traffic Management
  • Computer Networking
  • Robotics and Automation.

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  • Space
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