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Research/Project Description

Embedded Distributed Simulation for Transportation System Management:

This research explores the question: Can ad hoc distributed simulations incorporating real-time information be effective in rapidly producing reliable forecasts of future system states for use in system management and optimization? Ad hoc distributed simulations offer significant technical and economic advantages over conventional approaches such as global, centralized simulations. In the context of transportation systems, this research focuses on an autonomously reconfigurable, continuously operating, dynamically extensible, real-time, embedded simulation environment that is distributed across in-vehicle computer systems, roadside computers, and traffic management centers. Autonomous predictive models such as in-vehicle agent-based simulations join the system as their vehicle begins a trip, obtain information from sensor networks and information systems, perform predictive functions on behalf of their clients, share their projections with other simulations as needed, and exit the system when their vehicle reaches its destination. Local V2R/V2V test bed near the campus of Georgia Tech.

Sponsoring Organizations/Researchers

• National Science Foundation/ Georgia Tech - http://nsf-efri.ce.gatech.edu/

Contact

• Scott F. Midkiff, Ph.D. Program Director, National Science Foundation, Telephone:  703-292-8339, Email:  [email protected]
• Michael Hunter, Principal Investigator, Assistant Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 790 Atlantic Drive, NW
  Atlanta, Georgia 30332, (404) 385-1243, [email protected]

Time Frame

4 year project beginning Fall 2007

Projected completion date 8/31/2011