@inproceedings{09e23327616545a19e27187f5f8db810,
title = "An adaptive and VANETs-based Next Road Re-routing system for unexpected urban traffic congestion avoidance",
abstract = "Unexpected road traffic congestion caused by en-route events, such as car crashes, road works, unplanned parades etc., is a real challenge in today's urban road networks as it considerably increases the drivers' travel time and decreases travel time reliability. To face this challenge, this paper extends our previous work named Next Road Rerouting (NRR) by designing a novel vehicle rerouting strategy that can adapt itself to the sudden change of urban road traffic conditions. This is achieved through a smart calibration of the algorithmic and operational parameters of NRR without any intervention from traffic managers. Specifically, a coefficient of variation based method is used to assign weight values to three factors in the routing cost function of NRR, and the k-means algorithm is applied periodically to choose the number of NRR enabled agents needed. This adaptive-NRR (a-NRR) strategy is supported by vehicular ad-hoc networks (VANETs) technology as this latter can provide rich traffic information at much higher update frequency and much larger coverage than induction loops used in the previously proposed static NRR. Simulation results show that in the city center area of TAPASCologne scenario, compared to the existing vehicle navigation system (VNS) and static NRR, our adaptive-NRR can achieve considerable gain in terms of trip time reduction and travel time reliability improvement.",
keywords = "Cities and towns, Conferences, Cost function, Heuristic algorithms, Roads, Routing, Vehicles",
author = "Shen Wang and Soufiene Djahel and Jennifer McManis",
note = "Funding Information: Acknowledgments: This work was supported, in part, by Science Foundation Ireland grant 10/CE/I1855 and by Science Foundation Ireland grant 13/RC/2094. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2015 IEEE.; IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference 2015, VNC 2015 ; Conference date: 16-12-2015 Through 18-12-2015",
year = "2016",
month = jan,
day = "21",
doi = "10.1109/VNC.2015.7385577",
language = "English",
series = "IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference, VNC",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
pages = "196--203",
editor = "Onur Altintas and Frank Kargl and Eylem Ekici and Christoph Sommer and Michele Segata",
booktitle = "2015 IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference, VNC 2015",
address = "United States",
}