We propose a pheromone-based traffic management model, which simultaneously optimizes vehicle re-routing and traffic light control. Specifically, each car agent deposits multiple digital pheromone on its route. The road infrastructure agents fuse the pheromone to forecast traffic conditions. Once a congested road is predicted, we adopt a proactive vehicle re-routing algorithm for assigning alte...

This paper formulates a continuous model of a grid road network for determining the optimal hierarchical system of road networks. The hierarchical system is represented as the proportions of area taken up by roads at each level of the hierarchy. The objective is to derive the optimal ratio of road areas that minimizes the total travel time. The model explicitly takes into account inward, outwar...

The efforts led by the Government of the Republic of Korea to reduce the fatalities and road traffic accidents played a major role in decreasing the fatality rate in road traffic accidents. In the past 5 years (2012-2016) the fatalities from road traffic accidents continued to decrease due to the implementation of the 7th transportation safety master plan. Table 1 and Figure 1 show that the num...

Rule based traffic management is a methodology for dynamic traffic management that is a joint development of the different road authorities in the Netherlands. The approach tackles operational issues by disentangling problem detection, problem solution and conflict handling for each element in the road network. Each element in the road network follows the same generic rules and defers the traff...

background: sound produced by the passing traffic contributes to noise pollution. noise pollution affects the residents of both city and suburban areas. the noise produced does not only disturb the community living nearby the main road during the day but becomes worse during the night. the purpose of the study is to perform noise level measurement and subjective evaluation on the noise produced...

Many modeling approaches have been proposed to help forecast and detect incidents. Accident has received the most attention from researchers due to its impacts economically. The traffic congestion costs billions of dollars to economy. The main reasons of major percentage of traffic congestion are the incidents. Road accidents continue to increase in digital age. There are many reasons for road ...

Traffic congestion and road accidents are two external costs of transport and the reduction of their impacts is often one of the primary objectives for transport policy makers. The relationship between traffic congestion and road accidents however is not apparent and less studied. It is speculated that there may be an inverse relationship between traffic congestion and road accidents, and as su...

Road network management is an important task for the economic and social growth. In the context of an Indian city, efficient road network management is required to overcome the problem of traffic congestions and road accidents. Computer traffic simulation is a better way to analysis the road network. In this study a maiden attempt for a systematic empirical traffic simulation study is performed...

Accurate and timely traffic information enables road users to make informed decisions to enable them to optimise their route choices by avoiding congestion. Such information is instrumental to transport management as bus and taxi operators can reschedule their fleets in response to prevailing traffic conditions to minimise the effects of traffic congestion on their services. The information can...