REAL-TIME NETWORK DECOMPOSITION AND SUBNETWORK INTERFACING
REAL-TIME NETWORK DECOMPOSITION AND SUBNETWORK INTERFACING
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1971
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R. Walinchus
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R. Walinchus
NEW METHODS OF DECOMPOSING NETWORKS AND INTERFACING THE RESULTING SUBNETWORKS ARE BEING DEVELOPED AS PART OF THE CONTINUING RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT EFFORT TO IMPROVE REAL- TIME URBAN TRAFFIC CONTROL. THE BASIC CONCEPTS AND ALTERNATIVES ARE INTRODUCED IN THIS PAPER. NETWORK DECOMPOSITION MAY BE REQUIRED WHEN THE NETWORK GEOMETRY IS NOT UNIFORM AND/OR WHEN THE TRAFFIC CHARACTERISTICS WITHIN AN AREA ARE NOT UNIFORM. DECOMPOSITION IS NOT SUCCESSFUL UNLESS TWO TASKS ARE ACCOMPLISHED: (A) SUBNETWORK DETERMINATION ACCORDING TO CERTAIN CRITERIA AND (B) INTERFACING THE VARIOUS SUBNETWORKS. THE TWO GENERAL WAYS IN WHICH SUBNETWORKS MAY BE DEFINED ARE FIXED DEFINITION AND REAL-TIME SUBNETWORK DEFINITION. FIXED SUBNETWORKS ARE DEFINED FROM GEOMETRICAL AND OTHER CONSIDERATIONS. REAL-TIME SUBNETWORK DEFINITION IS BASED ON TRAFFIC DYNAMICS. TO DEFINE SUCCESSFULLY SUBNETWORKS IN REAL TIME, TWO ELEMENTS MUST BE PRESENT: (A) A CRITERION BY WHICH IT CAN BE DETERMINED THAT AN INTERSECTION IS A "CANDIDATE" FOR CONSIDERATION AS PART OF A SEPARATE SUBNETWORK AND (B) A PROCEDURE BY WHICH THESE CANDIDATE INTERSECTIONS CAN BE GROUPED INTO A WORKABLE SUBNETWORK. THE PROPOSED CRITERION FOR CANDIDACY IS OFFSET ERROR -THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A REALIZABLE AND AN IDEALIZED OFFSET. AMONG THE GROUPING PROCEDURES ARE TWO GENUINELY REAL-TIME METHODS (RECTANGULAR SUBSET AND CONNECTIBLE SET) AND ONE PSEUDO REAL-TIME METHOD. INTERFACING SUBNETWORKS CAN BE A DIFFICULT TASK. IN THE SPECIAL CASE WHERE THE TWO AREAS HAVE THE SAME SIGNAL CYCLE, INTERFACING IS ACCOMPLISHED VIA A "DELTA OFFSET." THIS DELTA OFFSET IS A VOLUME-WEIGHTED AVERAGE OF THE OFFSET CHANGES DESIRED ACROSS THE INTERFACE. WITH UNEQUAL CYCCLES, A MATCHING AND RESYNCHRONIZATION TECHNIQUE MIGHT BE EMPLOYED, OR INTERFACING CAN BE ACCOMPLISHED THROUGH A TRANSITION ZONE WHERE THE SIGNALS ARE TRAFFIC-ACTUATED RATHER THAN OPERATED ON ANY SPECIFIC CYCLE. /AUTHOR/