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Proactive Mechanism for Supporting the Global Managment of Vehicle Traffic Flow

  • US 20080167795A1
  • Filed: 03/25/2008
  • Published: 07/10/2008
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/18/2006
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A method of managing traffic flow in a transportation system, said method comprising:

  • creating an abstract representation of said transportation system that includes decision nodes representing intersections of paths within said transportation system and that includes links representing paths between said decision nodes,receiving current traffic flow rates for each of said links from a plurality of sensors located within said links;

    predicting future traffic flow rates for each outgoing link of each node based on current traffic flow rates for each incoming link of each said node and based on current traffic flow rates of each said outgoing link;

    comparing predicted traffic flow rates for each said outgoing link of each node to determine which of said outgoing links have the lowest traffic flow rates;

    routing users of said transportation system to outgoing links that have said lowest traffic flow rates; and

    after routing said users, adding users routed to a link to a predicted traffic flow rate for said link.

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