Development of the Rule Based Approach to Traffic Management by the Dutch Road Authorities

Rule based traffic management is a methodology for dynamic traffic management that is a joint development of the different road authorities in the Netherlands. The approach tackles operational issues by disentangling problem detection, problem solution and conflict handling for each element in the road network. Each element in the road network follows the same generic rules and defers the traffic problem to other roads in the network that have less priority. This way traffic is distributed across the road network and congestion is prevented.