Simulation of Ethical Behavior in Urban Transportation

For controlling urban transportations, traffic lights show similar behavior for different kinds of vehicles at intersections. Emergency vehicles need special behavior at intersections, so traffic lights should behave in different manner when emergency vehicles approach them. At the present time, intelligent traffic lights control urban transportations intelligently. In this paper the ethical aspect of this topic is considered. A model is proposed for adding special component to emergency vehicles and traffic lights for controlling traffic in ethical manner. The proposed model is simulated by JADE.

Authors:

• Ali Reza Honarvar
• Naser Ghasem Agaee

Keywords:

• Ethical traffic control
• intelligent transportation
• Ethical agent
• Multi-agent system.

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