A vehicle route management solution enabled by Wireless Vehicular Networks

Author

Collins, Kevin ; Muntean, Gabriel-Miro

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electron. Eng., Dublin City Univ., Dublin

fYear

2008

fDate

13-18 April 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

Traffic congestion is a very serious problem which is growing worse as the number of cars on the road continues to increase, out-pacing the provision of road capacity. This paper presents a novel vehicle routing algorithm for TraffCon - an innovative traffic management system for wireless vehicular networks. The algorithm tackles the traffic congestion problem by seeking to optimize the usage of the existing road capacity, reduce vehicle trip times and decrease fuel consumption and the consequent gas emissions. Results demonstrate that the algorithm significantly reduces congestion, journey times and fuel consumption and emissions in comparison with an existing approach.

Keywords

air pollution control; mobility management (mobile radio); telecommunication network routing; telecommunication traffic; fuel consumption; gas emissions; road capacity; traffic congestion; traffic management system; vehicle route management solution; wireless vehicular networks; Automotive engineering; Communication system traffic control; Costs; Disaster management; Engineering management; Fuels; Road vehicles; Routing; Telecommunication traffic; Timing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

INFOCOM Workshops 2008, IEEE

Conference_Location

Phoenix, AZ

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2219-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/INFOCOM.2008.4544658

Filename

4544658