TrafficFlow: Traffic Flow
Description
Traffic flow times from a simulation with timed and flexible traffic lights
Format
A data frame with 24 observations on the following 3 variables.
Timed Delay time (in minutes) for fixed timed
lights
Flexible Delay time (in minutes) for flexible
communicating lights.
Difference Difference (Timed-Flexible)
for each simulation
Source
Lammer and Helbing, "Self-Stabilizing decentralized signal control
of realistic, saturated network traffic", Santa Fe Institute working paper
\# 10-09-019, September 2010.Details
Engineers in Dresden, Germany were looking at ways to improve traffic flow
by enabling traffic lights to communicate information about traffic flow
with nearby traffic lights. The data in show results of one experiment where
they simulated buses moving along a street and recorded the delay time (in
seconds) for both a fixed time and a flexible system of lights. The process
was repeated under both conditions for a sample of 24 simulated scenarios.