Vehicular Ad-hoc Network Application for Urban
Traffic Management based on Markov Chains
Abstract: 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.
Keywords: Vanet, smart
city, intelligent transportation system, markov decision process, markov
chains.
Received March 1, 2017; accepted May 10, 20