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SUMMARY
Recent years have seen advancements in new Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), designed to increase traffic efficiency and reduce economically detrimental commuting times. Such systems aim to maximize the use of the existing road infrastructure using smart navigation systems.
The aim of this project is to study and understand vehicular flow characteristics and to propose new uses for wireless communications technologies in reducing vehicular traffic congestion, enhancing commuter safety and reducing transport emissions. The project will make use of and develop new vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs), systems which can be used to collect and distribute traffic metrics among local, wirelessly connected cars and road side units and provide advanced navigation services.
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SOLUTIONS
- Investigating how and where traffic information, such as traffic speed, destination and density, can efficiently be retrieved from and communicated to vehicles
- Specifying adapted routing and dissemination protocols to be able to cope with the changing dynamics of vehicular traffic
- Designing Traffic Coordination Points (TCPs) can collect and evaluate traffic metrics for a given area and suggest, via the vehicular network, individual routes which minimise travel timeliness
- Using TCP information to dynamically adapt the timings for the local traffic lights to maximize the vehicular throughput
- Implementing a realistic simulation environment to evaluate the performance of the proposed system under different traffic scenarios
- Validating a practical prototype under real traffic conditions in Luxembourg City using the existing “Hot City Mesh” as an infrastructure network
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