Dynamic signal control is considered an effective measure to deal with urban traffic congestion by increasing intersection capacity and decreasing delays at the same time. A hierarchical fuzzy logic controller for urban signalized intersections is developed in this paper. The controller is designed to be responsive to real-time traffic intensities. Vehicle detectors are placed upstream of the intersection on each approach to measure approach flows and estimate queues. The data is used to decide how much to extend the current green phase. These decisions are made by using a hierarchical fuzzy logic procedure. In the first stage, detected approach traffic flows and the vehicles in the queue are used to estimate relative traffic intensities in the competing approaches. These traffic intensities are then used in the second stage to determine the extension of the current green phase. The performance of this controller is validated in a four-phase signalized intersection by a simulation experiment. The result shows that this control method outperforms the conventional single-stage fuzzy logic controller, especially in the case of heavy traffic flows.


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    Title :

    Hierarchical fuzzy logic traffic controller for urban signalized intersections


    Contributors:
    Yang, Zuyuan (author) / Huang, Xiyue (author) / Du, Changhai (author) / Tang, Mingxia (author) / Yang, Fangxun (author)


    Publication date :

    2008


    Size :

    5 Seiten, 9 Quellen




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English







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