COLOMBO - Cooperative Self-Organizing System for low Carbon Mobility at low Penetration Rates
Overview
Background & policy context:
Traffic control systems cope with the ever increasing road traffic by determining the situation on the road network and by controlling traffic flows. Emerging cooperative techniques, such as vehicle-to-infrastructure communication, increase the knowledge about road traffic participants and open new channels for delivering information to road users.
However, most cooperative systems require large penetration rates in order to assure their functionality, making the first steps towards their deployment unattractive. COLOMBO works on overcoming this hurdle by focussing on two traffic management topics: traffic surveillance and advanced traffic light control algorithms for low penetration rates.
Objectives:
The project has the following objectives:
- Develop a traffic surveillance system based on vehicular communications, assuming low penetration rates
- Develop self-organising traffic light control systems based on swarm intelligence
- Improve possibilities to simulate such solutions by extending existing and delivering new open source software
- Focus on cost-efficiency and emission minimisation
Methodology:
For traffic simulation the open source simulator SUMO is used and for communication simulation NS-3 is used. To connect the two together the iTetris plaform will be used and extended when necessary. An educational toolkit will be released in the end of the project to share the methodology with interested stakeholders.
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