Adaptive routing for road traffic

Author

Fawcett, John ; Robinson, Peter

Author_Institution

Comput. Lab., Cambridge Univ., UK

Volume

20

Issue

3

fYear

2000

Firstpage

46

Lastpage

53

Abstract

The article reports on an integrated system which uses road congestion information to guide routing, both in advance and while in transit. It offers two novel features: historic information about congestion is collected and retained for use when planning routes; and GPS tracks vehicles while they undertake journeys, and the Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) Short Message Service (SMS) maintains communications between a moving vehicle and a central planning service to suggest revised routes avoiding congestion

Keywords

Global Positioning System; automated highways; mobile communication; road traffic; GPS; Global System for Mobile Communications; Short Message Service; adaptive routing; central planning service; congestion avoidance; historic information; integrated system; moving vehicle; revised routes; road congestion information; road traffic; route planning; Computational modeling; Delay; Extraterrestrial measurements; Infrared sensors; Low earth orbit satellites; Roads; Routing; Speech synthesis; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Computer Graphics and Applications, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0272-1716

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/38.844372

Filename

844372