Fusing data to manage traffic
by Tom Shelley, Eurekamagazine, 17/12/2007
One of the most challenging sensor fusion problems tackled to date – and the ongoing efforts to solve it.
Solving what might seem a simple problem of detecting traffic congestion and guiding motorists away turns out to be a highly complex one. As well as the technical problems of gathering and processing the required data, there are privacy, legal and organisational issues that have to be solved.Yet these issues are being resolved and the UK’s first pilot scheme may soon be active, followed by a national rollout. Jean Bacon, Professor of Distributed Systems in Cambridge University’s Computer Laboratory, offered her insights into the Time (Transport Information Monitoring Environment) project at the university’s recent Horizon seminar on ‘Energy in Cities’.
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