a cooperative multiagent system for traffic management and control
The main goal of an Advanced Traffic Management System is to help human road managers to improve traffic flows and road safety. This goal turns out to be especially hard due to the difficulties in getting continuous traffic information and also because this information is distributed in several equipments belonging to different traffic administrations and offices. So, if a traffic administration detects a traffic incident, the traffic administration must decide whom, when, what and how to perform the control actions to deal with this incident. Current approaches to answer these questions are completely human based. We propose that a Multiagent System (MAS) is able to almost-automatically carry out the answers to these questions. In this paper it is exposed the main features of this MAS (its ontology, agents and interaction protocols) and the behavior exhibited by this MAS when a meteorological incident is detected by a traffic administration in a real traffic scenario, the A3 Spanish freeway.
multiagent systems applications intelligent transport systems