Animals use information from multiple sources in order to navigate between goals. Ants such as Cataglyphis fortis use an odometer and a sun-based compass to provide input for path integration (PI). They also use configurations of visual features to learn both goal locations and habitual routes to the goals. Information is not combined into a unified representation but appears to be exploited by...

PROBABILISTIC MODELING OF ERRONEOUS HUMAN RESPONSE TO INVEHICLE ROUTE GUIDANCE SYSTEM: A DOMAIN DECOMPOSITION-BASED ALGORITHM Abdullah Al Farooq Old Dominion University, 2013 Director: Dr. ManWo Ng Drivers are generally assumed to follow the shortest route to their destinations prescribed by in-vehicle route navigation systems without mistake. However, it is not uncommon that drivers make mista...

Automated route guidance systems, both web-based systems and en-route systems, have become commonplace in recent years. These systems often replace humangenerated directions, which are often incomplete, vague, or in error. However, humangenerated directions have the ability to differentiate between easy and complex steps through language in a way that is more difficult in automated systems. Thi...

In the Universal Traffic Management Systems (UTMS) now being studied and developed in Japan, the infrared beacon (referred to as IR beacon from now on) is used for realizing the Dynamic Route Guidance System (DRGS) in real world. In DRGS, the IR beacon receives an optional destination information a driver specified, and immediately sends back to the vehicle the dynamic route guidance informatio...

Increasing mobility and the resulting rising traffic demands cause serious problems in urban regions world-wide. Approaches to alleviate the negative effects of traffic include an improved control of traffic lights and the introduction of dynamic route guidance systems that take current conditions into account. One solution for the former aspect is Organic Traffic Control (OTC) which provides a...

In the last decades, the increase of traffic and the limited capacity of urban networks, led to the development of algorithms for traffic management and route guidance. GPS technology can be used for fleet monitoring in urban or suburban areas and may provide useful information concerning the movement of all vehicles. Current route guidance systems are simple from an algorithmic point of view, ...

Reliable route guidance can be generated from solving the reliable a priori shortest path problem, which finds paths that maximize the probability of arriving on time. This paper aims to demonstrate the usefulness and feasibility of such route guidance using a case study. A hybrid discretization approach is first developed to improve the efficiency in computing convolution integral, which is an...