User Guide for Removal of Not Needed Traffic Signals
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 26,20 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Traffic signs and signals
ISBN :
Traffic Signal Timing Manual
Author : U.s. Department of Transportation
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 40,63 MB
Release : 2015-02-20
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781508557173
Book Description
This report serves as a comprehensive guide to traffic signal timing and documents the tasks completed in association with its development. The focus of this document is on traffic signal control principles, practices, and procedures. It describes the relationship between traffic signal timing and transportation policy and addresses maintenance and operations of traffic signals. It represents a synthesis of traffic signal timing concepts and their application and focuses on the use of detection, related timing parameters, and resulting effects to users at the intersection. It discusses advanced topics briefly to raise awareness related to their use and application. The purpose of the Signal Timing Manual is to provide direction and guidance to managers, supervisors, and practitioners based on sound practice to proactively and comprehensively improve signal timing. The outcome of properly training staff and proactively operating and maintaining traffic signals is signal timing that reduces congestion and fuel consumption ultimately improving our quality of life and the air we breathe. This manual provides an easy-to-use concise, practical and modular guide on signal timing. The elements of signal timing from policy and funding considerations to timing plan development, assessment, and maintenance are covered in the manual. The manual is the culmination of research into practices across North America and serves as a reference for a range of practitioners, from those involved in the day to day management, operation and maintenance of traffic signals to those that plan, design, operate and maintain these systems.
Highway Traffic Analysis and Design
Author : R.J. Salter
Publisher : Springer
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 20,65 MB
Release : 1989-06-30
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 134920014X
Book Description
A guide to analyzing and predicting traffic. It also covers the various problems encountered when designing traffic signal controls and highways to accommodate the varying volume.
Computerized Signal Systems
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 49,88 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Electronic traffic controls
ISBN :
Book Description
Traffic-study Requirements
Author : United States. Army. Corps of Engineers
Publisher :
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 13,91 MB
Release : 1961
Category : Traffic engineering
ISBN :
Book Description
Control System Design Guide
Author : George Ellis
Publisher : Butterworth-Heinemann
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 23,69 MB
Release : 2012-05-15
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0123859204
Book Description
This title will help engineers to apply control theory to practical systems using their PC. It provides an intuitive approach to controls, avoiding unecessary math and emphasising key concepts with control system models
Feedback Systems
Author : Karl Johan Åström
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : pages
File Size : 19,74 MB
Release : 2021-02-02
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 069121347X
Book Description
The essential introduction to the principles and applications of feedback systems—now fully revised and expanded This textbook covers the mathematics needed to model, analyze, and design feedback systems. Now more user-friendly than ever, this revised and expanded edition of Feedback Systems is a one-volume resource for students and researchers in mathematics and engineering. It has applications across a range of disciplines that utilize feedback in physical, biological, information, and economic systems. Karl Åström and Richard Murray use techniques from physics, computer science, and operations research to introduce control-oriented modeling. They begin with state space tools for analysis and design, including stability of solutions, Lyapunov functions, reachability, state feedback observability, and estimators. The matrix exponential plays a central role in the analysis of linear control systems, allowing a concise development of many of the key concepts for this class of models. Åström and Murray then develop and explain tools in the frequency domain, including transfer functions, Nyquist analysis, PID control, frequency domain design, and robustness. Features a new chapter on design principles and tools, illustrating the types of problems that can be solved using feedback Includes a new chapter on fundamental limits and new material on the Routh-Hurwitz criterion and root locus plots Provides exercises at the end of every chapter Comes with an electronic solutions manual An ideal textbook for undergraduate and graduate students Indispensable for researchers seeking a self-contained resource on control theory
Traffic Control Systems Handbook
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 670 pages
File Size : 45,4 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Electronic traffic controls
ISBN :
Book Description
This handbook, which was developed in recognition of the need for the compilation and dissemination of information on advanced traffic control systems, presents the basic principles for the planning, design, and implementation of such systems for urban streets and freeways. The presentation concept and organization of this handbook is developed from the viewpoint of systems engineering. Traffic control studies are described, and traffic control and surveillance concepts are reviewed. Hardware components are outlined, and computer concepts, and communication concepts are stated. Local and central controllers are described, as well as display, television and driver information systems. Available systems technology and candidate system definition, evaluation and implementation are also covered. The management of traffic control systems is discussed.
To Examine the Future of Our Nation's Infrastructure Needs
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and Transportation
Publisher :
Page : 2554 pages
File Size : 20,16 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Infrastructure (Economics)
ISBN :
Book Description
Design, Applications, and Maintenance of Cyber-Physical Systems
Author : Rea, Pierluigi
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 33,42 MB
Release : 2021-06-25
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1799867234
Book Description
Cyber-physical systems (CPS) can be defined as systems in which physical objects are represented in the digital world and integrated with computation, storage, and communication capabilities and are connected to each other in a network. The goal in the use of the CPS is integrating the dynamics of the physical processes with those of the software and networking, providing abstractions and modelling, design, and analysis techniques for the integrated whole. The notion of CPS is linked to concepts of robotics and sensor networks with intelligent systems proper of computational intelligence leading the pathway. Recent advances in science and engineering improve the link between computational and physical elements by means of intelligent systems, increasing the adaptability, autonomy, efficiency, functionality, reliability, safety, and usability of cyber-physical systems. The potential of cyber-physical systems will spread to several directions, including but not limited to intervention, precision manufacturing, operations in dangerous or inaccessible environments, coordination, efficiency, Maintenance 4.0, and augmentation of human capabilities. Design, Applications, and Maintenance of Cyber-Physical Systems gives insights about CPS as tools for integrating the dynamics of the physical processes with those of software and networking, providing abstractions and modelling, design, and analysis techniques for their smart manufacturing interoperation. The book will have an impact upon the research on robotics, mechatronics, integrated intelligent multibody systems, Industry 4.0, production systems management and maintenance, decision support systems, and Maintenance 4.0. The chapters discuss not only the technologies involved in CPS but also insights into how they are used in various industries. This book is ideal for engineers, practitioners, researchers, academicians, and students who are interested in a deeper understanding of cyber-physical systems (CPS), their design, application, and maintenance, with a special focus on modern technologies in Industry 4.0 and Maintenance 4.0.
