Title
Traffic lights timing inside microregion simulator using multiobjective optimization
Abstract
The growing number of vehicles and pedestrians in the cities increases difficulties for traffic control. Nowadays application of computational techniques helps traffic engineers, giving more efficiency, security and agility to decision making tasks. In this context, a good traffic lights management improves vehicles flow, decreasing traffic jams and delays. This paper applies a multiobjective technique to traffic lights timing using Non Dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm (NSGA-II), aggregates the proposed algorithm to a microregion traffic simulator coupled into Geographic Information System (GIS). Experiments performed in Porto Alegre area (Brazil) validate the applied technique, comparing obtained results with similar ones from earlier reports.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1109/CEC.2011.5949777
IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation
Keywords
Field
DocType
decision making,genetic algorithms,geographic information systems,sorting,traffic control,traffic engineering computing,Brazil,Porto Alegre area,computational techniques,decision making,geographic information system,microregion traffic simulator,multiobjective optimization,nondominated sorting genetic algorithm,traffic control,traffic jams,traffic light timing management,Geographic Information System,Multiobjective Optimization,NSGA,Simulation,Traffic Lights Timing
Traffic optimization,Geographic information system,Computer science,Simulation,Microregion,Traffic simulator,Multi-objective optimization,Sorting,Genetic algorithm
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
Pending
978-1-4244-7834-7
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.40
5
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Breno C. Costa110.40
Paulo Eduardo Maciel de Almeida28212.75
Evandro Caldeira310.40