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Research/Project Description

Reliable Range of Individual Travel Time Information in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks:
Using mobile ad hoc networks for traffic management
Baltimore-Washington Parkway testbed (simulated)

  • Data analysis and reliability
  • Independent of technical issues other than protocols

Sponsoring Organizations/Researchers

  • University of Maryland

Contact

Time Frame

To be confirmed

Research/Project Description

Development of a Prototype Vehicle-Infrastructure Integration System for Real-Time Traffic Management and Control:
While the Vehicle-Infrastructure (VII) concept has been in existence for a decade, its operational model and implementation strategy remain unclear. What is clear is that the VII infrastructure, if designed to meet its full expectations, must be able to support such applications as incident management, congestion mitigation, air pollution management, driving assistance, and disaster evacuation.

However, fully realizing this vision involves meeting challenges beyond just establishing communication links among VII components. New operational algorithms and higher-layer network protocols must be developed in view of the heterogeneous devices, contexts, and wireless technologies that are involved, and the specific missions that must be achieved.

Given the expected large scale of the VII system and ever increasing metropolitan areas, the traditional centralized operational concepts have become too costly to implement, maintain, and protect from threats. This research will develop a prototype hierarchical VII system with distributed decision making and reliable distributed networking that adequately accommodates future sophisticated VII applications.

Sponsoring Organizations/Researchers

  • National Transportation Center
  • Morgan State University, http://www.eng.morgan.edu/~ntc/
  • Clemson University, Department of Civil Engineering, Clemson University

Contacts

  • Ronnie Chowdhury, Depatment of Civil, Clemson University, (864) 656-3313
  • Anthony Saka, National Transportation Center, Morgan State University, (443) 885- 3666

Time Frame

Start Date: September 1, 2007
End Date: October 31, 2008
Status: Active

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