Intelligent Road Network Control

An important challenge in road traffic control (RTC) consists in the transition from the current mainly local and reactive control to network-wide, proactive control. This chapter presents a distributed architecture (DTCA, Distributed Traffic Control Architecture) and real-life test bed aimed at this challenge. DTCA consists of the addition of multi-agent control to an existing architecture for RTC, which, at the network-level, features only single-agent, top-down control. The fact that, in Traffic Engineering, it is still largely unknown how to do network-level control, results in a need for highly adaptable systems that can accommodate new insights into network-level control. This requirement has been addressed by the application of advanced Software Engineering (SE). An implementation of a control system based on DTCA, in the Dutch city of Alkmaar, has thus resulted in a real-life test bed for combined single- and multi-agent RTC.

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