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Client: Arlen Anderson [[Ab Initio]], <arley@abinitio.com>
Client: Arlen Anderson, [[Ab Initio Software]] <arley@abinitio.com>


Autonomous vehicles are likely a wave of the future.  A lot of effort is going into automating the control of individual vehicles to provide a self-driving version of our current experience.  An alternative is centralized control of fleets of vehicles to optimize large-scale traffic flow.  This is a simpler problem which might be very appealing for transport of goods by truck.  The brief is to build a simulation environment to demonstrate centralized control of a fleet of trucks.  The simulation should consist of three elements: a) a traffic optimization algorithm which achieves maximal transport of goods, given boundary conditions for trucks joining and leaving the flow of traffic, b) a visualization of the traffic flow, c) control of the traffic variables, including highway pattern (on-ramps, off-ramps), rates of trucks entering and leaving the traffic pattern, basic dynamic properties of trucks (e.g. maximum rate of acceleration/deceleration).
Autonomous vehicles are likely a wave of the future.  A lot of effort is going into automating the control of individual vehicles to provide a self-driving version of our current experience.  An alternative is centralized control of fleets of vehicles to optimize large-scale traffic flow.  This is a simpler problem which might be very appealing for transport of goods by truck.  The brief is to build a simulation environment to demonstrate centralized control of a fleet of trucks.  The simulation should consist of three elements: a) a traffic optimization algorithm which achieves maximal transport of goods, given boundary conditions for trucks joining and leaving the flow of traffic, b) a visualization of the traffic flow, c) control of the traffic variables, including highway pattern (on-ramps, off-ramps), rates of trucks entering and leaving the traffic pattern, basic dynamic properties of trucks (e.g. maximum rate of acceleration/deceleration).

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Client: Arlen Anderson, Ab Initio Software <arley@abinitio.com>

Autonomous vehicles are likely a wave of the future. A lot of effort is going into automating the control of individual vehicles to provide a self-driving version of our current experience. An alternative is centralized control of fleets of vehicles to optimize large-scale traffic flow. This is a simpler problem which might be very appealing for transport of goods by truck. The brief is to build a simulation environment to demonstrate centralized control of a fleet of trucks. The simulation should consist of three elements: a) a traffic optimization algorithm which achieves maximal transport of goods, given boundary conditions for trucks joining and leaving the flow of traffic, b) a visualization of the traffic flow, c) control of the traffic variables, including highway pattern (on-ramps, off-ramps), rates of trucks entering and leaving the traffic pattern, basic dynamic properties of trucks (e.g. maximum rate of acceleration/deceleration).