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AssigneeCarnegie Mellon University
InventorsOzan Tonguz, Wantanee Viriyasitavat
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Methods and software for managing vehicle priority proximate to a potential travel-priority conflict zone, such as a roadway intersection, where travel conflicts, such as crossing traffic, can arise. Coordination involves forming an ad-hoc network in a region containing the conflict zone using, for example, vehicle-to-vehicle communications and developing a dynamic traffic control plan based on information about vehicles approaching the conflict zone. Instructions based on the dynamic traffic control plan are communicated to devices aboard vehicles in the ad-hoc network, which display one or more virtual traffic signals to the operators of the vehicles and/or control the vehicles (for example, in autonomous vehicles) in accordance with the dynamic traffic control plan, which may account for a priority level associated with one or more of the vehicles.
A method of managing vehicle priority proximate to a potential travel-priority conflict zone, the method being executed in a dynamic traffic control system and comprising:
A machine-readable storage medium containing machine-executable instructions for performing a method of managing vehicle priority proximate to a potential travel-priority conflict zone, the method being executed in a dynamic traffic control system, said machine-executable instructions comprising:
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