METHOD FOR REGULATION OF TRANSPORT FLOWS ON HIGHWAY CROSSED BY FLOWS OF VEHICLES MOVING TRANSVERSELY Russian patent published in 2011 - IPC G08G1/00 

FIELD: transport.

SUBSTANCE: road trains continuously moving via crossways are formed. Number of vehicles in a train and duration of traffic light permissive signal is set according to established average speed of trains traffic and length of intervals between crossways. Traffic interval between trains is set equal to time of traffic light permissive signal action which is the same for all crossways on the highway. Operation of traffic lights on adjacent crossways is performed in reverse phase. Approach of head vehicles of each train to crossway is performed at the moment when traffic light permissive signal switches on by means of scanning by train head vehicle drivers the information about time to traffic light permissive signal switching on from colour digital traffic light and other indicators installed in each running interval at side or at top. At the same time, this is the instrument to form volume of each road train. According to scanned from indicators information, drivers manually perform necessary vehicle speed correction or this correction is performed automatically. Maintaining quasiconstant number of vehicles in each road train in consequence of to their loss due to leaving the highway is performed by road train replenishment with vehicles from highway crossing directions under entrance traffic light permissive signal with joining to corresponding road train. This signal is switched on according to a signal from sensors carrying out permanent recalculation of vehicles in each road train at given loss of vehicles in a train.

EFFECT: higher throughput on a highway with crossways.

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