FPolyOS: A Simulation Platform to Explore Breakthrough Concepts in Intelligent Transportation

Today, transportation planners are asked to optimize the transportation system such that every participant has minimal latency while the costs of the overall infrastructure are minimized. The tools at hand focus on road design, signage, and traffic light management. These tools are coarsegrained and must manage a variable degree of compliance from human drivers. Overall, this is a very difficult task. Perhaps the biggest opportunity for the transportation system is the electronics technology revolution, which makes many powerful tools available. These include the availability of customer point-to-point information (cellphone applications), dynamic traffic management (smart lights), and directive agents (Autonomous Vehicles or Commercial Fleets). Further, with the availability of these tools, fundamentally new customer engagement models can be enabled to optimize the transportation system. In this paper we present FPolyOS, a next generation simulation environment, which is built to explore break-out models enabled by bottom-up electronics infrastructure. FPolyOS is differentiated by exploring concepts such as micro-tolling and dynamic traffic management combined with a top-down market based optimization paradigm.