A Self-organizing Architecture for Traffic Management

In this paper we discuss the use of self-organizing architectures for traffic management systems. We introduce Soteria, a multi-layered, integrated, super-infrastructure for traffic safety enhancement and congestion reduction. We highlight Soteria’s use of microand macro-level models and its hybrid top-down/bottom-up strategy for traffic management. We then present a generic architecture that can be used to develop simulation systems for real world self-organizing systems. Lastly, we describe how this generic architecture can be instantiated to create the architecture of Matisse, a tailor made distributed simulation system for Soteria. Keywords-multi-agent systems; traffic management; simulation;