Affiliations: Department of Electrical Engineering & Center for
Telecommunication Research National Chung Cheng University Min-Hsiung, Chia-Yi,
Taiwan | Department of Computer Science and Information
Engineering, ChungChou Institute of Technology, Yuanlin, ChangHua, Taiwan | Department of Electrical Engineering & Center for
Telecommunication Research National Chung Cheng University Min-Hsiung, Chia-Yi,
Taiwan
Abstract: We proposed a multi-agent system for enhancing the intelligent
transportation system (ITS) with traffic delay compensation ability. There are
three kinds of agent to participate in this mechanism, namely, Travel Center
Agent (TCA), Vehicle Agent (VA), and Road Side Agent (RSA). The main function
of TCA is to cooperate with VAs to make a reasonable and convenient travel
contract for the vehicle driver. VA serves the car driver, makes the contract
with TCA, and executes the contract to help car driver to go to destination
with less wasted travel time. RSA accepts vehicle information from VA, gives a
route suggestion to VA, and bases on the information controlling traffic lights
to give each vehicle reasonable and fair red light waiting time. We also
proposed an approach to compensate the traffic delay caused by accidents. A
Driver Compliance Model is developed to maximize the compliance value through
the cooperation of the TCA, RSAs, and VAs. Finally, we implement a system
prototype to verify the proposed mechanism and experimental results shows that
the traffic light control with the proposed mechanism can give less and fairer
red-light waiting time than fixed traffic light switching mechanism.
