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The increasing demand for transport creates a huge challenge to local and central governments. As it is clear that simply building new roads will not be the answer, optimal transport strategies will be needed. In particular, optimal traffic control will require a lot of supporting infrastructure including road sensors (inductive loops). What if the traffic information were gathered seamlessly by the participating vehicles and sent to the other road participants and to the traffic control centres? This is one of the goals of the Traffimatics project,1 which aims at investigating the feasibility of such a large-scale vehicle network based on an open telematics architecture.
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Bilchev, G., Marston, D., Hristov, N., Peytchev, E., Wall, N. (2006). Traffimatics — Intelligent Co-operative Vehicle Highway Systems. In: Steventon, A., Wright, S. (eds) Intelligent Spaces. Computer Communications and Networks. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84628-429-8_7
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