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APPENDIX G
Pages 181-188

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... For coordinated operation involving traffic-actuated controllers on an arsenal street, a separate program caned NONACT was developed to execute the ACT3-~S program iteratively to force the timing plan to converge to a background cycle length. Both programs were developed with no user interface.
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From page 182...
... F1 Displays a brief help message on the chosen subject, usually a menu choice or a specific field on a data entry screen. F2 Displays a more general help message about the currently active screen.
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From page 183...
... 133 Eta my _ Bum - ~ 382 Ems - 3 E ~ - 1 1 ~3 L Ideal Sat Lane Width Sat Flow Owl @ Hin Time storage Sight Dist This allows you to enter and edit data such as volume, number of lanes, etc. that is specific to each movement.
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... Press F9 to create the phase codes. Other control decisions including minimum and maximum cycle length, controller type, lost time, etc.
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From page 185...
... If you are preparing your own data sets, this screen wig be empty at first. If you want to load the standard data, just enter STANDARD in the file name field and press F8.
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From page 186...
... Enter the nominal signal timing plan (phase times and cycle length) on the CONTROL PARAMETERS screen.
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From page 187...
... This will execute the NONACT program to arrive at an iterative solution to a signal timing plan that will impose the design cycle length and assign any extra time (following the normal termination of all actuated phases) to the coordinated phases.
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From page 188...
... CREATING YOUR OWN DATA TILES This program may be used to create your own data sets to examine the operation of the programs developed on this project. If you have no specific data of interest, you may wish to change some of the items In the sample data set provided.
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  • timing plan
  • cycle length
  • screen looks
  • file name
  • data screen

  • program options
  • file called
  • own data
  • report file
  • name field

  • controller type
  • lost time
  • menu choice
  • control decisions
  • signal timing

  • control parameters
  • hcm chapter
  • program called
  • miscellaneous data
  • entry screen

  • intersection data
  • batch file
  • results file
  • program iteratively
  • intersection los

  • control parameter
  • help message
  • control hints
  • dual entry
  • currently active


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