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Modeling, Estimation, and Control of Freeway Traffic

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley

    Roberto Horowitz, Laura Muñoz & Xiaotian Sun

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  1. Institute for Systems Research and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20742, USA

    E. H. Abed

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Horowitz, R., Muñoz, L., Sun, X. (2005). Modeling, Estimation, and Control of Freeway Traffic. In: Abed, E.H. (eds) Advances in Control, Communication Networks, and Transportation Systems. Systems and Control: Foundations & Applications. Birkhäuser Boston. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-8176-4409-1_17

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