Chapter 7

Evaluating Traffic Signal Control Systems Based on Artificial Transportation Systems

Fenghua Zhu, Zhenjiang Li and Yisheng Lv

State Key Laboratory of Management and Control for Complex Systems,Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China

7.1 Introduction

Traffic Signal Control Systems (TSCS) have played an important role in traffic management throughout the world, especially in big cities. However, there is still no effective method to evaluate their performance and reliability. The main difficulty of the evaluation lies in the reproduction of the transportation environment in the laboratory, as transportation systems are too huge and too complex to be described by traditional simulation methods.

Currently, ...

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