Proposal of “cyber parallel traffic world” cloud service

Remarkable progress has been made in intelligent transportation systems. For example, an autonomous vehicle can detect its position, other vehicles, pedestrians, and obstacles. Pedestrians with a smartphone can determine their position and send this information to the Internet. Even though vehicles and pedestrians can instantly determine their positions that information is mostly used within a narrow area and is rarely sent to a cloud service. Here we propose a new cloud service, the “cyber parallel traffic world (CPTW),” in which vehicles, pedestrians, and temporary obstacles move in synchronization with their real-world movements. The CPTW service could thus be used to help prevent traffic accidents, provide people gaining experience in driving on roads throughout the world as a driving simulator, etc. Virtual structures in CPTW are constructed by extracting road data from maps covering the world and by gathering the traffic rules for each country. We describe a development scheme to complete CPTW.