Decentralised Car Traffic Control System




Introduction

This work aims at designing a car traffic control simulation realised in a decentralised way by message propagations: congested nodes (roads intersections) send speed-up or slow-down messages to neighbouring nodes. Different types of journeys have been modelled: regular car journeys, accidents and emergency cars journeys. These journeys have different lengths and speeds, and affect the system differently. Optimal values of parameters, used during the simulations for controlling the cars,  have been determined through the use of a genetic algorithm (GA). Several versions of the control system are currently being realised.

Papers


G. Di Marzo Serugendo
February 2009.