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Trafficopter: A distributed collection system for traffic information

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Cooperative Information Agents II Learning, Mobility and Electronic Commerce for Information Discovery on the Internet (CIA 1998)

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We describe Trafficopter, a multi-agent system that collects and propagates traffic information in an urban setting using distributed methods. Agents into the vehicles themselves collect and propagate traffic-related information in a decentralized, self-organizing fashion with no single point of failure. The ideas in this system are the use of the vehicles/agents themselves as a way of collecting traffic data and the way those data are distributed to the interested vehicles. The tools used are a traffic simulator and a set of PDAs/WindowsCE-based terminals equipped with GPS and wireless transceivers. The simulator is used for the investigation of the validity of traffic control and information propagation algorithms in a distributed environment and the WindowsCE terminals for applying the above ideas into the real world.

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  1. Software Agents Group, MIT Media Laboratory, 02139, Cambridge, MA

    Alexandras Moukas & Pattie Maes

  2. Institute for Computer Science, Forth, Heraclion, Crete, Greece

    Konstantinos Chandrinos

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Moukas, A., Chandrinos, K., Maes, P. (1998). Trafficopter: A distributed collection system for traffic information. In: Klusch, M., Weiß, G. (eds) Cooperative Information Agents II Learning, Mobility and Electronic Commerce for Information Discovery on the Internet. CIA 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1435. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0053673

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