Workshop on advanced motorway traffic control

The workshop aims

• To promote interest in urban and interurban traffic control.
• To report related results of the DACCORD project.
• To report the results of other European and non-European projects currently under way.
• To address various advanced technical issues in motorway traffic control, including ramp metering, motorway-to-motorway control, variable speed signs and route guidance.

DACCORD is an acronym for the Development and Application of Co-ordinated Control of Corridors.  The project participates in the Transport Sector of the Telematics Applications Programme, which is carried out for the European Commission. Further information may be found on the World Wide Web pages of Hague Consulting Group, the project co-ordinator.

The main objective of the DACCORD project is to design, implement and validate a practical Dynamic Traffic Management System (DTMS) for integrated and co-ordinated control of interurban motorway corridors. An additional objective is to further develop an open system architecture for interurban traffic management. The project includes validation, demonstration and evaluation at three test sites:

• The ring road around Amsterdam and surrounding region.
• The ring road around Paris and connecting motorways.
• The Brescia-Venice motorway.

The present workshop follows on from the highly successful DACCORD workshop on short term forecasting held in February 1998. It will consist of 10 presentations, including several papers by members of the DACCORD consortium. The workshop, which will take place on Friday 11th December 1998, is being hosted by the Centre for Research on Environmental Systems and Statistics (CRES) at Lancaster University in the United Kingdom. Further information about the workshop venue and surrounding area can be found from the Lancaster University home page.

The workshop program committee is listed below:

• Eric Kroes, Hague Consulting Group, The Netherlands.
• Frans Middelham, AVV, The Netherlands.
• Habib Hadj Salem, INRETS, France.
• Jan van Schuppen, CWI, The Netherlands.
• Markos Papageorgiou, Technical University of Crete, Greece.
• Peter Young, Lancaster University, United Kingdom.

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