A Traffic Management System to Minimize Vehicle Congestion in Smart Cities

The economic and environmental impacts caused by traffic congestion are increasing. Improvements in the cities road infrastructure for minimizing these impacts are pricey and do not happen immediately. Thus, in order to improve vehicular traffic flow in dense urban centers, we present REACT, a traff...

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Published in2020 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC) pp. 1439 - 1444
Main Authors Gomides, Thiago S., De Grande, Robson E., Souza, Fernanda S.H., Guidoni, Daniel L.
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 11.10.2020
Subjects
Distributed databases
Intelligent Transportation Systems
Planning
Roads
Routing protocols
Smart cities
Traffic congestion
Transportation
VANETs
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Summary:The economic and environmental impacts caused by traffic congestion are increasing. Improvements in the cities road infrastructure for minimizing these impacts are pricey and do not happen immediately. Thus, in order to improve vehicular traffic flow in dense urban centers, we present REACT, a traffic management system to minimize vehicle congestion in Smart Cities. REACT is a traffic management system based on Vehicular communication, and it is divided into Request and Response phases. The Request phase allows vehicles to request traffic information from neighbor road segments. The Response supports vehicles to respond to the request with current road traffic information. The performance evaluation shows the ability of our solution to reduce traffic jams with a low communication overhead.
ISSN:2577-1655
DOI:10.1109/SMC42975.2020.9283122