TY - GEN
T1 - Self-organizing traffic control for congestion avoidance and traffic flow improvement
AU - Narzt, Wolfgang
AU - Wilflingseder, Ursula
AU - Pomberger, Gustav
AU - Kolb, Dieter
AU - Hörtner, Horst
N1 - Copyright:
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PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - Social insects perform complex, self-organizing tasks in the collective by using pheromonebasedindirect communication. Following the example of nature, this concept could also be aparadigm for controlling traffic, for recognizing and avoiding traffic congestions, wherevehicles act like individual insects by depositing digital pheromones in order to indirectlybenefit from their trail.Vehicles equipped with emerging positioning and communication technology virtuallyannotate their local environment and form a collective with decentralized, self-organizingcapabilities.In this paper we present an approach for a technical implementation of a pheromone-basedtraffic system and try to prove that this concept from nature is also valid for controlling thetraffic flow by using a complex micro simulator capable of simulating real city networks.
AB - Social insects perform complex, self-organizing tasks in the collective by using pheromonebasedindirect communication. Following the example of nature, this concept could also be aparadigm for controlling traffic, for recognizing and avoiding traffic congestions, wherevehicles act like individual insects by depositing digital pheromones in order to indirectlybenefit from their trail.Vehicles equipped with emerging positioning and communication technology virtuallyannotate their local environment and form a collective with decentralized, self-organizingcapabilities.In this paper we present an approach for a technical implementation of a pheromone-basedtraffic system and try to prove that this concept from nature is also valid for controlling thetraffic flow by using a complex micro simulator capable of simulating real city networks.
KW - Ant algorithm
KW - Digital pheromones
KW - Self-organization
KW - Traffic congestion
KW - Vehicle routing
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84878907385
SN - 9781615677566
T3 - 15th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems and ITS America Annual Meeting 2008
SP - 5473
EP - 5484
BT - 15th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems and ITS America Annual Meeting 2008
T2 - 15th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems and ITS America Annual Meeting 2008
Y2 - 16 November 2008 through 20 November 2008
ER -
