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Acceleration Noise as a Measure of Effectiveness in the Operation of Traffic Control System

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Chung, Cady C.; Gartner, Nathan H.
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Acceleration Noise measures the disutility associated with successive decelerations and accelerations in a signalized environment. It provides an indication of the smoothness of traffic flow. As such it constitutes a generalization of the number-of-stops concept and is suitable to replace it as an additive measure-of-effectiveness for designing and evaluating the operation of traffic control systems. This report develops models for calculating the acceleration noise incurred by a platoon of vehicles travelling along a signal-controlled traffic link. Several flow patterns are analyzed: discrete arrivals, uniformcontinuous arrivals and variable-continuous arrivals. A computer program and test results are described. The models can be easily extended for use in signal- controlled networks.
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1973-03
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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/5329
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Operations Research Center
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Operations Research Center Working Paper;OR 015-73

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