System and method for providing consolidated events in a traffic management control centre using situational awareness

A system for providing consolidated events in a traffic management control centre, the system comprising:

• a display;
• a memory;
• and
• a processor configured to:
• receive, from a plurality of sensors, a plurality of raw traffic events, wherein each raw traffic event of the plurality of raw traffic events comprises a geographical location, timestamp and event type;
• validate each of the raw events against a set of fuzzy rules that comprise fuzzy operators with a road-specific ontology;
• discard the raw traffic events for which validation is not successful from further processing and leaving validated events;
• obtain geographic data from a plurality of georeferenced map layers;
• match each of the validated events with the georeferenced map layers using the geographical location, timestamp and event type, and enrich each of the validated events with the associated geographic data to generate enriched events;
• match each of the enriched events against a plurality of stored events using the geographical location, timestamp and event type, to generate consolidated events;
• and
• display at least one of the consolidated event on a map on a display in a traffic management control centre, wherein the map is based on the georeferenced dynamic map layers.

A method for providing consolidated events in a traffic management control centre, the method comprising:

• receiving, from a plurality of sensors a plurality of raw traffic events, wherein each raw traffic event of the plurality of raw traffic events comprises a geographical location, timestamp and event type;
• validating each of the raw traffic events against a set of rules;
• discarding the raw events for which validation is not successful from further processing and leaving validated events;
• obtaining geographic data from a plurality of georeferenced dynamic map layers;
• matching each of the validated events with the georeferenced dynamic map layers using the geographical location, timestamp and event type, and enriching each of the validated events with the associated geographic data to generate enriched events;
• matching each of the enriched events against a plurality of stored events originated from the same event source and having the same event type to generate same-source-same-type fused events;
• matching each of the same-source-same-type fused events against a plurality of stored events originated from a plurality of other event sources and having the same event type to generate different-source-same-type fused events;
• matching each of the different-source-same-type fused events against a plurality of stored events originated from the plurality of event sources and having a different event type to generate the consolidated events;
• and
• displaying at least one of the consolidated events on a map on a display in a traffic management control centre, wherein the map is based on the georeferenced dynamic map layers.