On the impacts of locally adaptive signal control on urban network stability and the Macroscopic Fundamental Diagram

Urban traffic networks are inherently unstable when congested. This instability causes a natural tendency towards spatially inhomogeneous vehicle distributions and less consistent and reproducible relationships between urban traffic variables. It is important to find ways to mitigate this unstable behavior since well-defined relationships between average network flow and density – the MFD – are useful to aid network design and control.

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Year of publication:	2014
Authors:	Gayah, Vikash V. ; Gao, Xueyu ; Nagle, Andrew S.
Published in:	Transportation Research Part B: Methodological. - Elsevier, ISSN 0191-2615. - Vol. 70.2014, C, p. 255-268
Publisher:	Elsevier
Subject:	Macroscopic Fundamental Diagram \| Traffic network instabilities \| Traffic congestion \| Urban mobility \| Adaptive traffic signal control

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Type of publication:	Article
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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