Freeway Traffic Modelling and Control [Bookshelf]

This book focuses on the control of transportation systems, theories of traffic control, and highway management. This book is a welcome contribution that focuses on the all-important freeway component of transportation systems. Its aim is to provide an overview of modeling approaches and traffic control methods in a comprehensive manner without sacrificing rigor. It is an ideal text for a motivated control engineer who decides to enter this field. For a curious control theorist who wishes to learn more about traffic systems at an introductory level, there is something for everyone to find a connection to: models using partial differential equations or discrete event systems, estimation methods that include consensus-based ideas, control using classical proportional-integral methods or more modern model predictive control techniques, and optimization aimed at improving overall system performance. Finally, the authors added an innovative component that considers sustainable and environment-friendly freeway traffic systems.