Submitted by Emre Kaplan on 18 February, 2010 - 00:18
Long time ago, i dreamed the cars will communicate and transfer traffic information to each other. Moreover, they can tell their current location and destination to the system and the optimal path will be returned from the server. Even if it is now our research project, it has more historical reasons why i stick to it instead of resting for a couple of days.
Today, GPS devices are so common, people can enter destination information and see the shortest path (in terms of kilometers) but is that enough? What if we can build a system which can collect the traffic information, cars’ location and their status and compute a shortest time path for the cars in the system by predicting the future traffic congestion models? This may, hopefully, solve the traffic problem in the big cities as well.
I’m currently coding the framework in Java, i hope we can finish it before it is too late :)
