EUREKA PROJECT > 58 EUROPOLIS 

Project Description

The products are to be developed for the control of high-capacity/limited access road networks (urban accesses and motorway corridors) based upon integrated signal and variable sign control. New and improved products located at the roadside (signing systems and intelligent outstation) are to be based upon a new specification of intergrated hierarchial control covering access and lane control, isolated and coordinated-ramp metering and diversion strategy formulation. The control centre developments will include the application of traffic modelling software for integrated plan evaluation and off-line and Real-Time congestion prediction. Information management tasks involve the specification of interfaces for data capture from operators in adjacent control areas and other actors within the control area, plus the application of artificial intelligence techniques for plan identification and prioritisation. Hardware and software developments are in progress related to the following products: Variable message sign panels. Variable sign controller. Loop data processor. Intelligent outstation (inc. AID algorithms). Traffic prediction/Plan evaluation tool. Ramp metering tool. Tidal flow/lane manager. Message text tool for incident management. Alternative routes algorithm. Operator interface(s). System Integrator module.

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Modern and intelligent human interfaces. - urban and interurban traffic information systems - intelligent Road Infrastructure Systems - fleet vehicles management Systems. A basic systems development philosophy implemented for the city, intercity information are involved: 1) City: - incident detectors - flow identification - situations forseen - optimization of the urban system - flexible signalization - information optimalization needed for fleet vehicles - vehicle identification and routes' characterization in general - priority to social vehicles treatment - planning and oriented urban programmes - data communications management (mobile) - civil protection and safety information - parallel processing computer development - embedded in total Metropolitan Automation/information system - integrated Intelligent information processing on a distributed Expert System philosophy - knowledge-base Handling for traffic applications - built-in Expert System (main and distributed, HW) - flexible close control loop system (with new advanced signalization and information panelling) - city tool control and monitoring - Artificial Intelligence for communication management (network) - information handling * city data (traffic/environment) * process data * Real-time data treatment * System control data * correlated and for processed data of the zones/districts/city loops * trend information * diagnostic support information * data simulation treatment * data retrieval and transformation of bibliography of other departments * Tracking of vehicles' multiple direction.

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Formerly INISEL, ERDISA.

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AUSELDA is a group of companies specialised in informatic services transmission and treatment and artificial intelligence applications.

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Company using very advanced research on intelligent interfaces and detectors applied to the industry.

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