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Traffic management nowadays is one of the key challenges for cities. One drawback of traditional approaches for traffic management is that they do not consider the different valuations of waiting-time reduction of the drivers. These valuations can differ from driver to driver, e.g., drivers who are late for their job interview have a higher valuation of reduced waiting time than individuals driving home from work routinely. This also applies to trucks with urgent load, e.g., as part of a just-in-time production chain. To overcome this problem, we propose a new mechanism for traffic control at intersections called Initial Time-Slot Auction that is valuation-aware. It relies on agent-based driver-assistance systems to allocate the right to cross an intersection. Our evaluation shows that it does yield a significantly higher overall satisfaction.
This work is part of the project DAMAST (Driver Assistance using Multi-Agent Systems in Traffic) (http://www.ipd.uni-karlsruhe.de/%7Edamast/) which is partially funded by init innovation in traffic systems AG (http://www.initag.com/).
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Schepperle, H., Böhm, K. (2007). Agent-Based Traffic Control Using Auctions. In: Klusch, M., Hindriks, K.V., Papazoglou, M.P., Sterling, L. (eds) Cooperative Information Agents XI. CIA 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4676. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-75119-9_9
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