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Intelligent Road Network Control

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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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    J. L. M. Vrancken & M. dos Santos Soares

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  1. Faculty of Civil Engineering and, Geosciences, Delft University of Technology,, Stevinweg 1, Delft, 2628 CN, Netherlands

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  2. Fac. Technology, Policy & Management, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands

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  3. Fac. Mechanical, Maritime &, Materials Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Mekelweg 2, Delft, 2628 CD, Netherlands

    Hans Hellendoorn

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Vrancken, J.L.M., Soares, M.d.S. (2010). Intelligent Road Network Control. In: Negenborn, R., Lukszo, Z., Hellendoorn, H. (eds) Intelligent Infrastructures. Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering, vol 42. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3598-1_12

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