Article ID: | iaor1994202 |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Volume: | 6 |
Issue: | 1 |
Start Page Number: | 4 |
End Page Number: | 8 |
Publication Date: | Jan 1993 |
Journal: | OR Insight |
Authors: | Martin P.T. |
Keywords: | urban affairs, programming: network |
This article describes a novel approach whereby a network form of a linear programme defines junction turning flows. The development of traffic control from the earliest isolated signal systems is traced to the state-of-the-art dynamically responsive systems. The method, which was originally developed for optimising flows of water and electricity, used traffic detector flow measurements and known flow constraints to predict unknown flows.