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oktober 21, 2006
Dagslänkar 2006-10-21
First Invisibility Cloak Tested Successfully, Scientists Say
Delwin T. Lindsey, Angela M. Brown Universality of color names
Cf: Color Names: More Universal Than You Might Think
Seung-Bae Cools, Carlos Gershenson, Bart D'Hooghe: Self-organizing traffic lights: A realistic simulation
We have previously shown in an abstract simulation (Gershenson, 2005) that self-organizing traffic lights can improve greatly traffic flow for any density. In this paper, we extend these results to a realistic setting, implementing self-organizing traffic lights in an advanced traffic simulator using real data from a Brussels avenue. On average, for different traffic densities, travel waiting times are reduced by 50% compared to the current green wave method.
Posted by hakank at oktober 21, 2006 10:58 FM Posted to Diverse vetenskap