Triceps / Cartesius: an Atms Testbed Implementation for the Evaluation of Inter-jurisdictional Traffic Management Strategies

2 ABSTRACT This paper describes the initial testing and evaluation of one of the key components of the Testbed Real-time Integrated Control and Evaluation Prototype System (TRICEPS). TRICEPS is a software platform that facilitates the implementation and evaluation of a wide range of algorithms for traffic control and Advanced Transportation Management Systems (ATMS). TRICEPS supports research activities by providing consistent interfaces for transportation management modules to both simulated and real-world environments. One of the key components of the TRICEPS platform is a distributed architecture for the provision of real-time decision support to Transportation Management Center (TMC) operators, that provides a set of core transportation management applications for multi-jurisdictional traffic control and incident management on freeway and arterial networks. The architecture hosts algorithms for the estimation of current traffic conditions, the analysis of incident characteristics and the formulation of multi-decision-maker traffic control plans, using advanced methodologies for cooperation and conflict-resolution. The process of evaluation of such methodologies using the TRICEPS platform, while aimed at demonstrating the effectiveness of the cooperative approach, also provides a demonstration of platform functionality for range of related applications.