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In projecten als Smartway (Japan), IntelliDrive (Verenigde Staten), CVIS en Safespot (EU) zijn es... more In projecten als Smartway (Japan), IntelliDrive (Verenigde Staten), CVIS en Safespot (EU) zijn essentiële technologieën voor coöperatieve systemen beproefd. De technologieën zijn inmiddels verrijkt, beproefd en door de 'standaardisatiemolens' gehaald. Technisch gezien begint het er dus aardig op te lijken. De volgende vraag die beantwoord moet worden, is of voldoende helder is wat de eindgebruiker ermee kan en wat hij er wijzer van wordt. Anders gezegd, zijn de product-en servicedefinities commercieel interessant? Het High Tech Automotive Systems-innovatieprogramma, dat is overgegaan in AutomotiveNL, werkt al vanaf 2010 aan een systeem dat aan die eisen voldoet: Connected Cruise Control (CCC). Het CCC

Traffic engineering and control, Oct 1, 2006

Global System for Telematics (GST), a new standard for an open telematics platform, is described.... more Global System for Telematics (GST), a new standard for an open telematics platform, is described. The most important goal for GST is to provide 'standardised openness', allowing traffic managers to communicate with every vehicle irrespective of make and model. GST aims to accomplish this by decoupling the user's hardware and operating system from the services offered. This would lead to flexibility and harmonisation as a first step towards standardisation. GST would allow services such as enhanced floating car data, reporting incidents or breakdowns en route, enhanced driver awareness, and optimisation of traffic performance on the road network as a whole. The roles of the five parties needed to operationalise GST are outlined: the GST client system, service developer, service provider, service aggregator and end-user (driver).

Transportation Research Board 90th Annual MeetingTransportation Research Board, 2011

Nowadays many intelligent transportation system (ITS) systems and services, in particular coopera... more Nowadays many intelligent transportation system (ITS) systems and services, in particular cooperative systems and intelligent vehicles, are developed. The question remains when these ITS systems and services will be sufficiently matured to have a considerable effect on traffic operations and as such will contribute to realize goals with respect to throughput, reliability, safety, livability and sustainability. In this paper the development over time of a broad range of ITS systems and services is estimated using Gartner's hype cycles. In these hype cycles Gartner provides visions of the future for basic information and communication technologies that are pivotal to these ITS systems and services. In the approach a distinction is made by type of communication, i.e. infrastructure-infrastructure, vehicle-infrastructure, vehicle-vehicle and autonomous vehicle systems, and by main traffic functions, i.e. informing, advising, instructing, intervening and price stimulation. The resulting time-sliced visions of the future provide insight into current and expected developments of infrastructure-related systems, smart vehicles and cooperative systems. It turns out that in 2018 real-time travel time information provision will be the first service that can be taken over by in-car devices implying that the number of variable message signs providing traffic information might be reduced. Furthermore, it shows a gap between traffic management using traditional roadside equipment and traffic management using smart vehicles and cooperative systems. In that period, people can adapt to new ITS systems and services, basic information and communication technologies can further mature, and relevant public and private stakeholders can work out a joint vision on traffic management and information.

Transportation Research Part C-emerging Technologies, Oct 1, 2002

... By modeling the separate instruments as intelligent agents, it might be possible to tune the ... more ... By modeling the separate instruments as intelligent agents, it might be possible to tune the actions of the individual instruments through the agent concept of collaboration. Letting the individual instruments handle the most basic ...

Birkhäuser Basel eBooks, 2005

In this paper we present a test bed for multiagent control systems in road traffic management. As... more In this paper we present a test bed for multiagent control systems in road traffic management. As the complexity of traffic control on a network grows it becomes more difficult to coordinate the actions of the large number of heterogeneous traffic management instruments that are available in the network. One way of handling this complexity is to divide the coordination problem into smaller coherent subproblems that can be solved with a minimum of interaction. Multiagent systems can aid in the distribution of the problem (over the various agents that comprise the multiagent system) and facilitate the coordination of the activities of these agents when required. In the literature no consensus exists about the best configuration of the traffic managing multiagent system and how the activities of the agents that comprise the multiagent system should be coordinated. The decomposition of a problem into various subproblems is an active field of research in the world of distributed artificial intelligence. This paper starts out with a survey of the approaches as they are reported in the literature. Subsequently the test bed is introduced and the modules it is comprised of. Finally an application is presented that illustrates some of the research the test bed has made possible.

19th ITS World CongressERTICO - ITS EuropeEuropean CommissionITS AmericaITS Asia-Pacific, 2012

This paper presents an illustration of and argument for seamless data integration across multiple... more This paper presents an illustration of and argument for seamless data integration across multiple transport modes. It starts off with an example use case before going on to discuss the reasons why it has not been possible to realize this use case in the past. It then moves on to present a practical approach for resolving the issues that have precluded deployment of multi-modal traveler information and support services and concludes with information about the practical services that the authors have created that exploit open data access to offer innovative new capabilities.

In het Europese project eCoMove werken 32 partners uit tien landen aan slimme, cooperatieve oplos... more In het Europese project eCoMove werken 32 partners uit tien landen aan slimme, cooperatieve oplossingen om het verkeer energiezuiniger te maken. Welk concept hanteren de partners? En welke concrete applicaties hebben de eCoMove-partners inmiddels ontwikkeld

By changing the organisation of the parking, car drivers in Amsterdam find ways to increase the p... more By changing the organisation of the parking, car drivers in Amsterdam find ways to increase the parking capacity of a car park considerably. In Makking traffic safety in residential areas is increased by taking away all road signs, side walks and pedestrian crossings, thus providing optimal opportunities for safe traffic operations. Also in Amsterdam, during summertime, road works will significantly hinder traffic flows on the western part of the ring road. Despite the considerable decrease of capacity and despite the absence of additional facilities, queues disappeared when road works were started. The above examples show that self-organisation can often be observed as a dominant mechanism in the evolution of processes in the transport sector On the other hand it can also be observed that, deliberately, the self-organising capabilities of traffic and other transport related processes are restricted by the introduction of strict control mechanisms. Examples are the introduction of Automated Vehicle Guidance, Intelligent Speed Adaptation and Ramp Metering in traffic control, and, traditionally, the strongly centralised and unilateral dictated policymaking by the national government. Both approaches (self-organisation and strict control) aim at a better functioning of the transport sector (e.g. improvement of the traffic performance in terms of safety or accessibility), but a rationale for applying either one of both strategies is lacking. In this paper we will address this shortcoming and we will present a framework that can be seen as a first step in the development of such a rationale. The development of this framework necessitates to take into account various characteristics of the traffic flow (or transport system) e.g. interactions between various components of the system, the individual intelligence of a component as well as the urgency of a particular situation (e.g. an incident situation as compared to free flow of traffic). Using the framework it can assessed quite easily which control strategies (including no control) should be put in operation.

This article introduces the objectives and structure of the European research project DESERVE tha... more This article introduces the objectives and structure of the European research project DESERVE that is co-funded by the ARTEMIS-JU and national funding bodies. The project started in September 2012 with a duration of 3 years. The project aims to establish a new embedded SW and HW design by using a more efficient development process (including the enabling general platform concept and tool chain) in order to overcome challenges in reducing component costs and development time of future ADAS functions for modern vehicles. Both the process and the platform concept will be demonstrated with innovative ADAS functions in 3 passenger cars, 1 truck and 1 motorcycle. Embedded hardware and software units have been developed for improving electronic horizon band of vehicles by detecting objects in front. Moreover, driver/motorcycle rider awareness is analysed by monitoring his/her actions online. The systems need to be robust and reliable in different environment conditions (night time, rain, etc.). The DESERVE platform distinguishes three layers of intelligence: perception, application and intervention&warning control. The demonstrators will be based on software development tools from Elektrobit (ADTF) and Intempora (RTmaps). These tools are used to create 10 innovative ADAS applications as part of an integral ADAS development platform, following a new design and development process. Since the project is highly application oriented, the requirements have been adapted mainly from the ISO 26262 standard and the AUTOSAR framework which ensures compatibility with the existing automotive software environment.

Transportation Research Record, 2005

As with many growing cities in the World, Copenhagen has to cope with a growing population and co... more As with many growing cities in the World, Copenhagen has to cope with a growing population and corresponding growing traffic demand. What is the Copenhagen way to deal with the challenges in urban mobility that comes with this growth? The first answer is concretized in a clear political goal (CO2 neutral in 2025). The second answer is formulated in a new political vision titled Community Copenhagen. The vision is an open invitation to all who use the city to build on 'a living and vibrant city', 'a city with edge' and 'a responsible city' together. The new political vision asks for a new take on multimodal traffic management that interacts directly with citizens and strengthens green mobility, thereby paving the path for sustainable mobility in daily life in Copenhagen – basically been a Smart City. This paper elaborates on the intelligent traffic solutions that enable sustainable mobility in Copenhagen. This is an edited and updated version of a paper presen...