Urban traffic control (UTC) is a cheap, readily available, tool that is underused for travel demand management. While it has long been understood that traffic is likely to re-route in response to signal settings, the goal of a UTC system is still often seen as “get the vehicle through the junction as quickly as possible”. The main exception is vehicle actuated signals, which attempt to speed jo...

In the last few years, traffic congestion has become a growing concern due to increasing vehicle ownerships in urban areas. Intersections are one of the major bottlenecks that contribute to urban traffic congestion. Traditional traffic signal control systems cannot adjust the timing pattern depending on road traffic demand. This results in excessive delays for road users. Adaptive traffic signa...

Recently we have proposed a new transportation system called PRISM (which stands for Program for Individual Sustainable Mobility) to help alleviate traffic congestion and to improve energy efficiency of travel [1]. The system employs privately owned small, dual-mode vehicles that can run on both conventional streets and a dedicated guideway. In this paper we consider an all-electric version for...

This paper develops congestion theory and congestion pricing theory from its microfoundations, the interaction of two or more vehicles. Using game theory, with a twoplayer game it is shown that the emergence of congestion depends on the players’ relative valuations of early arrival, late arrival, and journey delay. Congestion pricing can be used as a cooperation mechanism to minimize total cost...

Inclusion of Agents in the domain of managing traffic and its real time demand of coordination and cooperation is proven quite promising. Agent oriented traffic coordination helps in improving traffic management and in achieving efficiency of vehicle movement. Today with rapid urbanization and increasing number of vehicles traffic congestion has emerged out as a serious bottleneck. Automated ve...

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the evaluation of different alternatives for the implementation of Turkish army corps artillery ammunition supply system. The objective is to see whether the alternative systems operate properly and to select the best system design. We find that the first alternative system cannot supply the units for all phases of an eight-day battle time while the secon...

Despite the growing rates of vehicles on the roads and transported goods, transportation and traffic should become safer, cleaner and more efficient. Thus to ensure reliable and safe communication architecture within VANET, we propose in this context a cooperative and fully distributed congestion control approach, dedicated to operate within vehicular networks, integrated within the 802.11p und...

As governments seek to transition to more efficient vehicle fleets, one strategy has been to incentivize ‘green’ vehicle choice by exempting some of these vehicles from road user charges. As an example, to stimulate sales of energy efficient vehicles (EEVs) in Sweden, some of these automobiles were exempted from Stockholm’s congestion tax. In this paper the effect this policy had on the demand ...

India is the second largest country in the category of population. With the increasing population the consumption of the vehicles also increases, leading to critical burden on traffic management in the metropolitan cities and towns of the country. In 2011-12 alone, 20.4 million motorized vehicles were sold in India leading to congestion and accidents on the roads. For controlling the traffic on...

Aviation operations in the United States are expected to increase multifold by 2025. The consequences of such an increase in air traffic could become overwhelming at major airports. Extreme Short Take Off and Landing (ESTOL) aircraft offer the ability to alleviate the foreseen congestion at major airports by utilizing small runways that are inaccessible to conventional airplanes. In this paper,...