Scorpion: A Solution Using Cooperative Rerouting to Prevent Congestion and Improve Traffic Condition

Most large cities suffer with congestion problem, one of the main causes of congestion is the sudden increase of vehicle traffic during peak hours, mainly in areas with bottlenecks. Current solutions in the literature are based on perceiving road traffic conditions and re-routing vehicles to avoid the congested area. However, they do not consider the impact of thesechanges on near future traffic patterns. Hence, these approachesare unable to provide a long-term solution to the congestion problem, since when suggesting alternative routes, they create new bottlenecks at roads closer to the congested one, thus just transferring the problem from one point to another one. With this issue in mind, we propose an intelligent traffic cooperative routing application called SCORPION, which improves the overall spatial utilization of a road network and also reduces the average vehicletravel costs by avoiding vehicles from getting stuck in traffic. Simulation results show that our proposal is able to forecasting congestion and re-route vehicles properly, performing a load balance of vehicular traffic.