Model-Based Design of Coordinated Traffic Controllers

Modern transportation systems optimize traffic flows in road networks by allowing intersection-level traffic controllers to communicate and synchronize. Typically they are distributed systems, with multiple nodes (intersections) communicating with each other in real time. This paper proposes a design process for traffic coordination systems using model driven engineering (MDE), a paradigm used to design complex embedded systems in automotive and aerospace. The approach combines a conventional micro-simulator (AIMSUN) with a state of the art control modelling tool (Simulink) following a model-view-controller approach. The MDE approach allows for both micro-simulation (on a PC) and emulation (using embedded controllers). Once the model is validated, automatic code generation can be used to generate the implementation of the system on embedded devices. As a case study, the authors designed a SCATS-inspired coordinated intersection control system. To the authors' knowledge, the proposed approach is the first, fully automated approach for the design of complex intelligent transportation systems (ITS).

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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Abstract used with permission of ITS Japan. Paper No. 4190.
• Corporate Authors:

  ITS Japan

  Tokyo,   Japan 
• Authors:
  • Sinha, Roopak
  • Roop, Partha
  • Ranjitkar, Prakash
  • Zeng, Junbo
  • Zhu, Xingchen
• Conference:
  • 20th ITS World Congress
  • Location: Tokyo , Japan
  • Date: 2013-10-14 to 2013-10-18
• Publication Date: 2013

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 11p
• Monograph Title: 20th ITS World Congress, Tokyo 2013. Proceedings

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Case studies; Design methods; Intelligent transportation systems; Microsimulation; Traffic signal control systems
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01536387
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 9784990493981
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 28 2014 10:18AM