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4; eight permitted phases, φ1 , . . , φ8 ; and eight stages, each actuating two phases: {φ1, φ5 }, {φ1, φ6 }, {φ2 , φ5 }, {φ2 , φ6 }, {φ3 , φ7 }, {φ3 , φ8 }, {φ4 , φ7 }, {φ4 , φ8 }. 11) An intersection controller selects one stage u(t) ∈ U for each t = 0, 1, · · · . If the sequence u(t) is periodic, the controller is called pre-timed or fixed-cycle and the period T is the cycle. No vehicle movement is permitted for some portion of the cycle. This enforced idleness of duration L is required for pedestrian movement or for an amber light between successive transitions in u(t).
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One could call (l ∗ , m∗ ) the critical phase and the intersection n∗ for which l ∗ ∈ In∗ , m∗ ∈ On∗ as the critical intersection. Following (Allsop 1972) one may also define the capacity of this intersection. 3 Max-Pressure Controller The max-pressure controller of Sect. 3 is extended to a network in this section. 72) p and linearly extend the definition to [U] = ∑ λU U, w(q, [U]) = ∑ λU w(q,U) = ∑ (l,m) q(l,m) − ∑ γ(m,p) q(m,p) S ◦ [U](l, m). 51) in that for each phase (l, m) we take the product of its queue length q(l,m) and saturation rate s(l, m) and subtract the corresponding amount from the downstream queue q(m,p) weighted by the average turn ratio γ(m,p) .