Traffic Management of Vehicles based on Urban Mobility and Network Resources Availability

• Published in: 2021 17th International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS) pp. 205 - 211
• Main Authors: Araujo, Matheus B., Silveira, Matheus M., Gomes, Rafael L.
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.07.2021
• Subjects: Intelligent Transportation Systems; LTE; Quality of service; Routing; Routing Vehicles Problem; Safety; Sensor systems; Transportation; Urban areas; Vehicle routing; Vehicular Networks
• ISSN: 2325-2944
• DOI: 10.1109/DCOSS52077.2021.00043

In modern cities, the usage of an Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) appears as a suitable solution to reduce urban traffic jams, while minimizes accident occurrence. A crucial task inside a ITS is the Traffic Management (TM) that plans the routes for the vehicle inside the urban environment. Currently, TMs approaches focus only on urban information (such as time travel, CO2 emission, etc), ignoring the network and connection issues that support the application running inside the vehicle and the technological services of the urban environment. In this way, this lack of concern about the network influences the Quality of Service (QoS) and the Quality of Experience (QoE) of the users inside the vehicle, as well as may compromise the efficiency of the urban services (for example safety solutions, useful content delivery, among others). Within this context, this paper proposes an strategy for vehicle routing (and re-routing), called Network and Urban Observations for Balance (NUOB). NUOB uses both travel time of vehicles and the network flows in a designed heuristic to reach a suitable balance between travel time and packet delivery. The experiments suggest that NUOB improves the packet delivery and reduces the average travel time of vehicles inside the urban environment.