SOFT-COMPUTING AGENTS PROCESSING WEBCAM IMAGES TO OPTIMIZE METROPOLITAN TRAFFIC SYSTEMS
André Faro, Daniela Alejandra Giordano, C. Spampinato · Kluwer Academic Publishers eBooks · 2006
The paper proposes a solution for the optimization of traveling times in a metropolitan area that exploits the traffic images collected from webcams located at the crossroads of the traffic network. This is achieved by optimizing the traffic light cycles according to a distributed mathematical model whose solution is obtained by using suitable soft-computing agents resident on the nodes of the information network where they are responsible of processing the webcam images and of managing the traffic light cycles.