Modern traffic management systems are, we believe, best implemented as multi-agent systems. When multiple agents have to make decisions on shared knowledge, this knowledge incorporates the uncertainty of underlying information and sensor systems. One approach to deal with uncertainty is the use of probabilistic models called Belief Networks. However, calculating with these models is a NP-hard p...

Road traffic noise affects the quality of life in the areas adjoining the road. The effect of traffic noise on people is wide ranging and may include sleep disturbance and negative impact on work efficiency. To address the problem of traffic noise, it is necessary to estimate the noise level. For this, a number of noise estimation models have been developed which can estimate noise at the recep...

Systems supporting situation awareness in large-scale control systems, such as, e. g., encountered in the domain of road traffic management, pursue the vision of allowing human operators prevent critical situations. Recently, approaches have been proposed, which express situations, their constituting objects, and the relations in-between (e. g., road works causing a traffic jam), by means of do...

To monitor novice driver performance in the first years of solo driving, a test aimed at assessing speed adaptation to the traffic situation was developed and evaluated. The Adaptation Test consisted of 18 traffic scenes presented in two (almost) identical photographs, which differed in one single detail, increasing the situation's complexity. As the pictures were presented randomly and partici...

Free flight represents a major change in the way that aircraft may be handled in the U.S. National Airspace System. It has the potential of significantly increasing airspace utilization and thus improving aircraft throughput. The degree to which these objectives can be met, however, without compromising aircraft safety, depends on establishing appropriate changes in the air traffic control syst...

We develop an anticipative model-based predictive traffic control approach for ramp metering in freeway traffic networks. If ramp metering is implemented in a freeway network with alternative routes, traffic can spontaneously re-route due to the response of the drivers to the applied control actions. Although spontaneous re-routing can have a significant influence on the resulting traffic situa...

The Butterfly Flower Shower (BFS) Human Behaviour Model describes human behaviour in each demanding, possible accidental situation. The BFS human behaviour model is presented for a traffic situation. The key elements (perception, cognition, reaction) of the human behaviour are identified. Also possible limitations and errors in all elements of human behaviour are presented. The model is present...

Air traffic controllers continually monitor the traffic situation in their sectors and take action when they detect potentially hazardous situations. Automation systems simultaneously and independently monitor the situation and provide alerts when the situation meets defined criteria. The decisions made by the controllers and the automation systems may agree or disagree. Signal Detection Theory...

Traffic jam often occurs around the signalized intersection because each takes “stop-and-go cost” to pass through the intersection. Hence, traffic signal control has significant meanings in reducing the traffic jams efficiently. A modification method of traffic signal control management based on self-organizing is introduced. The self-organizing observed in non-linier coupled oscillators is ref...