An Urban Traffic Management System based on Vehicle Cooperation

The next generation of smart cities will rely on Intelligent Transport Systems (ITSs) due to the increased complexity and dynamism of traffic caused by continuous urbanization and population growth. The traditional techniques to deal with these challenges are expensive and have a great impact on people's lives and, in this scenario, the introduction of computational and technological solutions is necessary. In order to minimize the problems caused by congestion in urban centers, we present Let Me Know, a traffic management system inspired by the communication among vehicles that allows the request and availability of information related to vehicular traffic. The vehicles request information in order to update a distributed database containing momentary analyzes of road traffic. Through extensive performance analysis, we show our system's ability to reduce traffic congestion with a low impact on the network.