Traffic Light Control to Form Progressive Movements along an Arterial

A traffic light control protocol is proposed, which builds compact platoons of vehicles to make efficient use of green times. It forms short platoons at multiple links and times traffic lights to concatenate these to form a single dense platoon, in which vehicles mostly passes many intersections without stopping. The protocol minimizes the number of times vehicles stop; by simulation, it roughly halves that of greenwave under near saturated demand.