The Transportation Experience

The Transportation Experience
Author: William L. Garrison
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 471
Release: 2005-10-13
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 0195346734

While much of the transportation systems in Europe and the United States are mature (if not senescent), the rest of the world is still planning, developing, and deploying new systems. The accomplishments and mistakes of places like the United Kingdom and the United States, then, can teach us lessons that may be applied to places where transportation remains nascent or adolescent. The Transportation Experience seeks to understand the genesis of transportation policy in America and the UK, along with the roles that this policy plays as systems are innovated, deployed, and reach maturity, and how policies might be improved.

Feedback Ramp Metering in Intelligent Transportation Systems

Feedback Ramp Metering in Intelligent Transportation Systems
Author: Pushkin Kachroo
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 343
Release: 2011-06-27
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1441989617

Feedback Ramp Metering in Intelligent Transportation Systems is the first book on the topic of using feedback control (also called real-time traffic control or adaptive control by some traffic engineers) in ramp metering. It provides traffic theory fundamentals and then the design of feedback controllers for isolated and coordinated ramp metering problems. Software simulation code in Matlab and Paramics is provided in the book so that the reader can get a hands-on feel for the various algorithms. With a large number of examples, illustrations, and original problems, this book is excellent as a textbook or reference book for a senior or graduate level course on the subject, as well as a reference for researchers in related fields.