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A holonic architecture for the global road transportation system

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In recent years the development of automated traffic systems has been gaining increasing attention, and a substantial amount of effort has been invested in trying to find a solution to problems associated to road transport. Among these problems are road accidents caused by human-related factors, such as tiredness, loss of control, a slow reaction time, limited field of view, etc. Another transport-related problem is that of loss of time which may be caused by a slow driving speed due to weather conditions, road conditions, visibility, traffic congestion, etc. In this paper, we present a distributed architecture and the underline distributed algorithm for solving the global road transportation system, which is being developed by several European Universities.

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  1. University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands

    Frédérique Versteegh

  2. Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain

    Miguel A. Salido & Adriana Giret

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Versteegh, F., Salido, M.A. & Giret, A. A holonic architecture for the global road transportation system. J Intell Manuf 21, 133–144 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10845-008-0165-6

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