A Transport Information Monitoring Environment (TIME): Event Architecture and Context Management (TIME-EACM)

Lead Research Organisation: University of Oxford
Department Name: Computer Science

Abstract

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Description Stationary Traffic Monitoring Sensor Networks: By using spatio-temporal correlations inherent to traffic data it is possible to significantly reduce the cost of communicating road traffic data from fixed sensor infrastructure to traffic monitoring gateways. Such a temporary deployment is meant to support applications utilized for future planning decisions by local authorities.This class of applications does not require the most recent traffic information about the network, so we are focusing on periodic traffic data propagation with a report period that is much larger than the sensing period.

Traffic Monitoring Vehicular Networks: By using delay-tolerant carry-and-forward algorithms that leverage knowledge of traffic statistics in an urban setting it is possible to enable timely delivery of messages from vehicles to stationary gateways, whilst minimizing message transmissions and optimizing bandwidth utilization.
Exploitation Route The Department for Transport may be interested in using some of the findings to facilitate timely propagation of high data rate traffic information via vehicular networks.
Sectors Transport
URL https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/activities/sensors/time/time.html