Parallel Transportation Management and Control System and Its Applications in Building Smart Cities

• Published in: IEEE transactions on intelligent transportation systems Vol. 17; no. 6; pp. 1576 - 1585
• Main Authors: Zhu, Fenghua, Li, Zhenjiang, Chen, Songhang, Xiong, Gang
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 01.06.2016; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Artificial intelligence; artificial system; Buildings; Complex systems; computational experiment; computational experiment and parallel execution (ACP) approach; Computational modeling; Computer architecture; Control systems; Intelligence; Intelligent transportation systems; Intelligent transportation systems (ITS); ITS cloud; parallel transportation management and control system (PTMS); Smart cities; social transportation; Traffic control; Transportation; transportation knowledge automation; Transportation management; ITS cloud; parallel transportation management and control system (PTMS); computational experiment; transportation knowledge automation; social transportation; artificial system; computational experiment and parallel execution (ACP) approach; Intelligent transportation systems (ITS)
• ISSN: 1524-9050; 1558-0016
• DOI: 10.1109/TITS.2015.2506156

Advancements in complexity, complex systems, and the intelligence sciences, particularly smart city technologies, have shown great potential in aiding to ease traffic congestion. The overall approach and the main ideas in building smart transportation for smart cities, particularly ACP (artificial system, computational experiment, and parallel execution)-based parallel transportation management and control systems (PTMS), are presented. PTMS can be expanded to the new generation of intelligent transportation systems. The main components of the proposed architecture include social signal and social traffic, ITS clouds and services, agent-based traffic control, and transportation knowledge automation. Some technical details of these components are discussed. Finally, one case study is introduced, and the effectiveness is analyzed.