Vehicle traffic congestion is one of the serious problems facing municipal administrators. The search for increased efficiency has led to the development of traffic engineering as a science.The digital computer as a traffic engineer's instrument is relatively new, but appears to be a natural successor to analog systems, which have in turn sprung from fixed time systems and noncoordinated devices. Today's computer systems are the first to link all the elements of a closed-loop automatic control system; namely, information gathering, decision-making, execution, verification, and evaluation.In particular, the system at San Jose has shown that a computer system can be readily adapted to handle different control techniques, and give almost immediate feedback in concrete terms. A system of measuring stops and delay, developed at San Jose, can be used to evaluate traffic in both a microscopic and macroscopic sense. The use of these values has demonstrated how seemingly small improvements can have a very large effect on the costs to the motoring public.


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    Titel :

    Meeting the Needs of Traffic Control with a Digital Computer


    Weitere Titelangaben:

    Sae Technical Papers


    Beteiligte:
    Bermant, O. I. (Autor:in)

    Kongress:

    1968 Automotive Engineering Congress and Exposition ; 1968



    Erscheinungsdatum :

    1968-02-01




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Konferenz)


    Format :

    Print


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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