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Advanced Road Traffic Service Demonstrator
Marek Małowidzki, Przemysław Bereziński,
Tomasz Dalecki, Michał Mazur
Military Communication Institute, Zegrze, Poland,
{m.malowidzki, p.berezinski, t.dalecki, m.mazur}@wil.waw.pl
Abstract: We propose a software architecture for an advanced routing service demonstrator, a key
component of the traffic subsystem in Insigma 1 . We discuss novel capabilities that are designed to
fulfill Insigma’s specific requirements. We also describe the approach taken to decompose the complex
problem of finding optimal routes into a number of manageable entities. Preliminary conclusions
from our development are presented.
Keywords: road traffic, routing, route prediction, Open Street Map (OSM)
I. Introduction
The Insigma project is aiming at the development of an intelligent information
system for global monitoring, detection and identification of threats. The system
collects data from various kinds of sensors, cameras, and users, and processes
the data to identify threats and notify appropriate public services. One of Insigma’s
tasks is road traffic optimization and control, which includes streetlights, information
boards, and route planning.
In the paper, we discuss the architecture of a demonstrator of our routing
service. The service includes most features that could be found in similar solutions;
additionally, a number of advanced and forward-looking capabilities are
being developed, some of them are unique and specific to Insigma. While there
are a number of mature, commercial solutions available (with Google Maps [15]
as a premier example), we believe it would be interesting and instructive to have
a look at a large, complex, open-source based development – its assumptions, design
decisions, and conclusions.
The paper is organized as follows: First, we overview requirements placed on
the routing service that stem from Insigma’s goals. Then, we present the service architecture,
discussing each component in detail. Finally, we state the current state of work
and future work. We end the paper with overview of related work and conclusions.
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The work has been co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund under the Innovative Economy
Operational Program, INSIGMA project no. POIG.01.01.02-00-062/09.