New Environment CREPE for Transportation Control and its Effectiveness

This paper discusses the control scheme for vehicle control for a future integrated transportation system forming a type of new generation of Intelligent Transportation SystemITS. The approach generally is focuses on the mechanisms for how to detect or estimate incidents on roads and to then communicate the information to each vehicle. The individual vehicular data is collected by using the Global Positioning System GPS and the mobile phone network by means of a device equipped in each vehicle. For the purpose of this paper, the device will be referred to as “Reporting Equipment for current geographic Position” or REP. In the case where every vehicle within the transportation network is equipped with a REP is referred to as “Comprehensive REP Environment” or CREPE. With real-time information, the system can dynamically control the real world traffic and also predict road’s incidents of the near future. To achieve those functions, a multi-cycles-micro simulation system is discussed with the data structure and control algorithms.