Coordination of traffic management instruments using agent technology
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The objective of this paper is to prove by example the opportunities for cooperation between dynamic traffic management instruments. Agent technology is presented as a useful way to support the deployment of these ideas. In the Netherlands, more and more instruments are installed to promote the flow of tra.c. As more and more instruments are deployed, chances are that conflicts will arise when control tools are applied in the same area. The increase in the number of the deployed instruments implies a bigger responsibility for the Dutch Traffic operators, who will have to ascertain which control scenarios are relevant to the situation at hand and implement them. By modeling the separate instruments as intelligent agents, it might be possible to tune the actions of the individual instruments through the agent concept of collaboration. Letting the individual instruments handle the most basic forms of coordination automatically might also relieve the traffic operator. This paper will demonstrate the aforementioned ideas using two simple examples: One in which consecutive ramp metering installations coordinate their actions to promote the flow at a downstream bottleneck and one in which traffic management instruments coordinate their actions to attain a common goal on the network-level. © 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
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TNO Identifier
236704
ISSN
0968090X
Source
Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 10(5-6), pp. 455-471.
Pages
455-471
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