Patent ID: 6792348
Filing Date: 2004-09-14
Classification: G08G

Abstract:
A traffic management system for managing in a road network the vehicle traffic which is formed, on a physical layer, by a plurality of vehicles travelling along a plurality of road sections of the road network and a plurality of road points located at said road sections of the road network, comprising:a packet switched control network on a traffic control layer in which the packet traffic including a plurality of packets being routed along a plurality of packet routing links is controlled by a plurality of packet control units located at said packet routing links; wherein said packet switched control network on the traffic control layer is configured in such a way that: said packet routing links correspond to said road sections; said packet control units correspond to said road points; and each of said packets routed along a respective packet routing link corresponds to or simulates at least one of said vehicles travelling on a corresponding road section; wherein said packet control units are adapted to control the packets on a respective packet routing link in the traffic control layer to correspond to or simulate a respective vehicle on a corresponding road section on the physical layer.