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Road safety is one of the most important concerns of road authorities. In order to improve road safety, traffic managers develop traffic management and control strategies. The use of advanced traffic management systems is to support road managers in daily traffic management tasks. However, it is important to test in advance, the traffic strategies to evaluate the results and their suitability to the current situation. In this study, a test-bed based on multi-agent is presented. The purpose of this test-bed is to be able to test several traffic information strategies in case of adverse weather situations. It consists in a knowledge model implemented by a set of basic agents. These agents are easily configurable and extensible to aid in-depth research in this field. The test includes agents to control variable message signal, weather stations, data collection stations etc. The test-bed interface is based on Google maps providing a realistic environment that facilitates the implementation of the tested strategies in the real world.

Inspec keywords: road traffic; traffic information systems; multi-agent systems; road safety

Other keywords: traffic control strategy; data collection station; traffic information strategy; variable message signal; Google maps; road information system; weather station; road safety; multiagent test-bed; knowledge model; traffic management strategy; daily traffic management task

Subjects: Knowledge engineering techniques; Traffic engineering computing

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