Towards Integrated Traffic Control with Operating Decentralized Autonomous Organization

TL;DR

This paper introduces a decentralized autonomous organization framework for integrated traffic control, achieving faster consensus on global energy efficiency and improving local objectives in intelligent traffic systems.

Contribution

It proposes a novel DAO-based control method with a consensus and incentive mechanism, enhancing scalability and optimality in traffic management.

Findings

Faster consensus on energy consumption efficiency achieved

Improved local objectives of intelligent agents

Demonstrated potential for integrated traffic control systems

Abstract

With a growing complexity of the intelligent traffic system (ITS), an integrated control of ITS that is capable of considering plentiful heterogeneous intelligent agents is desired. However, existing control methods based on the centralized or the decentralized scheme have not presented their competencies in considering the optimality and the scalability simultaneously. To address this issue, we propose an integrated control method based on the framework of Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO). The proposed method achieves a global consensus on energy consumption efficiency (ECE), meanwhile to optimize the local objectives of all involved intelligent agents, through a consensus and incentive mechanism. Furthermore, an operation algorithm is proposed regarding the issue of structural rigidity in DAO. Specifically, the proposed operation approach identifies critical agents to execute the smart contract in DAO, which ultimately extends the capability of DAO-based control. In addition, a numerical experiment is designed to examine the performance of the proposed method. The experiment results indicate that the controlled agents can achieve a consensus faster on the global objective with improved local objectives by the proposed method, compare to existing decentralized control methods. In general, the proposed method shows a great potential in developing an integrated control system in the ITS