Computational framework for optimizing traffic flow could be the beginning of a road revolution
Drivers trying to get to work or home in a hurry know traffic congestion wastes a lot of time, but it also wastes a lot of fuel. In 2011, congestion caused people in US urban areas to travel an extra 5.5 billion hours and purchase an extra 2.9 billion gallons of fuel costing $121 billion. But despite the tangle of vehicles at busy intersections and interstate ramps, most of the country’s highways are open road with vehicles occupying only about 5 percent of road surface.
Scientists with the Urban Dynamics Institute (UDI) at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory are working to reduce travel time and fuel consumption by developing a computational framework for connected vehicle technologies that facilitate vehicle-to-vehicle communication, as well as communication between vehicles and traffic controls like traffic lights. Researchers envision vehicles exchanging information—such as location, speed, and destination—to generate individualized instructions for drivers. Watch a visualization of the process:
“By telling drivers the optimal speed, the best lane to drive in, or the best route to take, we can eliminate stop-and-go driving and improve safety,” said Andreas Malikopoulos, UDI deputy director and principal investigator of the project. “As a driver, you may get additional instructions suggesting you change lanes or follow a different path that may not be the route your GPS would give you to avoid congestion.”
The first step for the project team is developing decentralized control algorithms that govern how vehicles will communicate locally among vehicles interacting directly on the road but also act globally to optimize traffic flow across a city. The computational framework uses “decentralized control” algorithms because, realistically, all the vehicles in a city cannot communicate information to a central control center due to the staggering amount of data that would be involved.
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