We are developing a decentralized architecture for city traffic control where intersections are port-based agents. A self-adaptive system would be able to respond quickly to the changes in the road conditions, modifying signal policies and rerouting drivers to prevent congestions. Research issues include distributed control architecture and optimization, inter-agent communication and driver models. Different traffic simulators are being used together with the port-based agent architecture, Artist (Bosch GmbH), ShiftAHS and Traf-NetSim.
Currently, we are analyzing the traffic patterns in a section of the city of Pittsburgh called East-Liberty.