Efficient model predictive control for large-scale urban traffic networks

made important contributions to the work described in this dissertation. Acknowledgements In the last four years, during the time when I was working towards this thesis, there were both cheerful moments and tough moments. All these moments made this part of my life more colorful and more meaningful. I owe a lot of thanks to the people who guided me, who help me, who accompanied me, who shared the cheerful and tough moments with me through these four years. First, I would like to thank my supervisors for providing me this great opportunity to pursue all this, and for having been always supporting me in these years. It was my great pleasure to have Prof. De Schutter as my promoter. I have really appreciated the support, the inspiration, and the trust he gave me. It was always very efficient, fruitful, and pleasing when working with him. I am also very grateful to Prof. Hellendoorn for his belief on me that I could achieve this, which was always the great encouragement for myself in the last two years. I also want to thank Prof. Xi for giving me this research task, and leading me through the confuses. I have sincerely appreciated the freedom, the trust, and the unconditional support I have been given by him. Next, I wish to thank the people who offered me help related to this thesis. I would like to thank Monique, whose work guided me stepping into the research field of this thesis, and Andreas, for being interested in my work and for giving me lots of valuable suggestions, and Solomon, for our pleasant cooperation. Thanks to Yuping for daily discussions. Thanks to Will for helping me solve difficult programming problems. A thank you to Maarten. I would also like to thank all my committee members, who spent their time and efforts on reading the thesis and giving their valuable feedbacks. I would also like to thank the people who accompanied me through all the four years. Thanks to Lakshmi, who shared happy and sad moments with me, and made the life in Delft less boring. Many thanks to my friends in China, and all my dear colleagues in DCSC. Special thanks to Kitty, Ellen, Esther, and Saskia. Finally, I wish to thank my family for always standing on my side. I would like to thank my parents for bringing me to the world, and always …