Traffic Signal Systems Operations and Design
Author : Michael Kyte
Publisher :
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 22,37 MB
Release : 2012-08
Category : Roads
ISBN : 9781602634206
Author : Michael Kyte
Publisher :
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 22,37 MB
Release : 2012-08
Category : Roads
ISBN : 9781602634206
Author : John E. Tyworth
Publisher : Addison Wesley Publishing Company
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 37,87 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Author : U.s. Department of Transportation
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 46,15 MB
Release : 2015-02-20
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781508557173
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.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 43,40 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Emergency management
ISBN :
Intended to assist agencies responsible for incident management activities on public roadways to improve their programs and operations.Organized into three major sections: Introduction to incident management; organizing, planning, designing and implementing an incident management program; operational and technical approaches to improving the incident management process.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 670 pages
File Size : 17,59 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Electronic traffic controls
ISBN :
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.
Author : James M. Giblin
Publisher :
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 48,7 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN :
Author : Slobodan Guberinic
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 36,67 MB
Release : 2007-11-08
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 1420062700
Despite traffic circles, four-way stop signs, lights regulated by timers or sensors, and other methods, the management of urban intersections remains problematic. Consider that transportation systems have all the features of so-called complex systems: the great number of state and control variables, the presence of uncertainty and indeterminism, th
Author : Andreas Schadschneider
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 585 pages
File Size : 50,19 MB
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0080560520
The first part of the book provides a pedagogical introduction to the physics of complex systems driven far from equilibrium. In this part we discuss the basic concepts and theoretical techniques which are commonly used to study classical stochastic transport in systems of interacting driven particles. The analytical techniques include mean-field theories, matrix product ansatz, renormalization group, etc. and the numerical methods are mostly based on computer simulations. In the second part of the book these concepts and techniques are applied not only to vehicular traffic but also to transport and traffic-like phenomena in living systems ranging from collective movements of social insects (for example, ants) on trails to intracellular molecular motor transport. These demonstrate the conceptual unity of the fundamental principles underlying the apparent diversity of the systems and the utility of the theoretical toolbox of non-equilibrium statistical mechanics in interdisciplinary research far beyond the traditional disciplinary boundaries of physics. - Leading industry experts provide a broad overview of the interdisciplinary nature of physics - Presents unified descriptions of intracellular, ant, and vehicular traffic from a physics point of view - Applies theoretical methods in practical everyday situations - Reference and guide for physicists, engineers and graduate students
Author : Robin T. Underwood
Publisher :
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 40,73 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Traffic engineering
ISBN : 9780949905451
Author : Beverly T. Kuhn
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 26,24 MB
Release : 2019-03-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1260019586
Traffic, highway, and transportation design principles and practical applicationsThis comprehensive textbook clearly explains the many aspects of transportation systems planning, design, operation, and maintenance. Transportation Engineering: A Practical Approach to Highway Design, Traffic Analysis, and Systems Operations explores key topics, including geometric design for roadway alignment; traffic demand, flow, and control; and highway and intersection capacity. Emerging issues such as livable streets, automated vehicles, and smart cities are also discussed. You will get real-world case studies that highlight practical applications as well as valuable diagrams and tables that define transportation engineering terms and acronyms. Coverage includes:•An introduction to transportation engineering•Geometric design•Traffic flow theory•Traffic control•Capacity and level of service•Highway safety•Transportation demand•Transportation systems management and operations•Emerging topics