Vehicular ad-hoc network application for urban traffic management based on Markov chains

Abstract EN

Urban traffic management problems have taken an important place in most of transportation research fields, hence the emergence of vehicular ad-hoc network (VANET) as an essential part of the intelligent transportation system (ITS), that intervenes to improve and facilitate traffic management also control as far as improve global driving experience in the future.

Indeed, the concept of smart city or city of future becomes a new paradigm for urban planning and management, it considered as a complex system made up of services, citizens and resources.

On the other hand, ITS concept is implemented to deal with some problems as though traffic congestion, energy consumption and property damage and human losses caused by transport accidents.

In this paper we propose an approach for urban traffic management in smart cities based on markov chains implementing all vanet’s technology units to optimize traffic flow simultaneously with real time monitoring of vehicle in urban area from its starting point to the destination.