TRAMAN21 (TRAffic MANagement for the 21 st Century) Motivation and Scope Prof. Markos Papageorgiou Dynamic Systems and Simulation Laboratory Technical University of Crete

1. Preliminaries ERC (European Research Council) – – Started in 2008 – Advanced Investigator Grants: ~300/year; up to 5 years and up to 2.5 MEURO; all disciplines, world-wide – Requirements: prior Excellence (50%); Breakthrough, New Avenues for Research (50%) TRAMAN21 – Started in March 2013 – Strong background in Traffic Management – Scope: Motorway traffic of the future

2. Motivation Motorway traffic: strongly degraded daily 12 January 2011, 8:14 am16 December 2010, 17:55 pm

Motorway traffic control – Ramp metering – Variable Speed Limits (VSL) – Driver Information and Route Guidance

3. Vehicle Automation and Communication Systems (VACS) In-vehicle systems (automated vehicles) – Collision warning; automated queue, congestion, and road works assistance; active green driving; obstacle avoidance; lane keeping; ACC; active lane-changing or merging system; fully automated vehicles (Google car); driver supervision; … – Mainly for safety and convenience: ADAS – Some (few) VACS have direct traffic flow implications

VII or cooperative systems (connected vehicles) – Several of the above (e.g. CACC, cooperative lane-changing, …) – Vehicles = mobile sensors – What applications? – Direct link TCC --> vehicle (e.g. route advise, VSL, lane change, …) Platooning – Various suggestions – Dedicated lanes?

TRAMAN21: – Implications of emerging VACS for traffic flow behaviour: New traffic flow modelling approaches – Intelligent vehicles may lead to worse traffic flow efficiency: e.g. ACC with long time gaps; under- utilized dedicated lanes; informed but uncoordinated driver route choice; … – What functions should be enabled with V2V, V2I, I2V? – Exploitation of VACS for better Traffic Management

… for an uncertain future VACS evolution and varying penetration levels

4. The TRAMAN21 Project WP1: Overview, Analysis and Exploitation of VACS WP2: Traffic Flow Modelling in Presence of VACS – Microscopic – Macroscopic – Simulation tools

WP3: Motorway Traffic Control – Hierarchical control structure – Local control level – Network-wide traffic control – Large-scale virtual test site demonstration

WP4: Local field test – With “conventional” VSL (+RM) WP5: Dissemination – Publications – Presentations and seminars – Website and video