VAMOS2 - Traffic management system VAMOS Dresden
Project manager: Dr.-Ing. Ralf Franke
Dipl.-Ing. Sebastian Pape
Dipl.-Ing Matthias Körner
Project duration: 07/2004 -
external project partners: Landeshauptstadt Dresden
Brief description: Within the framework of several research and funding projects of the Federal Government and the Free State of Saxony (e.g. "intermobil Region Dresden", "Traffic Management System Dresden - Traffic Area Dresden-West"), the operational traffic management system VAMOS2 was developed and gradually built up as the traffic management system for the state capital Dresden after a city council resolution in 2003.
Particularly successful pilots and prototypes were transferred to continuous operation. Subsequently, the database was comprehensively expanded. This was followed by the successive expansion of the information channels used in order to reach as many road users as possible and thus achieve a broad impact of the traffic control and information measures.
VAMOS2 networks the traffic detectors available in the region and the various traffic control and guidance systems of the urban road network and the highways.
The core of the system is Dresden's traffic data center. Based on the determined traffic situation, VAMOS2 controls the traffic control systems and, as a content provider, makes information available for information and service purposes.
In addition to the fully automatic traffic control system, which operates 24 hours a day, the system can be intervened in manually via several operator stations with expert knowledge. In addition to an operator station in the control center of the city administration, such a station is also installed in the VAMOS center at the TU Dresden, which is used for various research tasks.
The traffic management system VAMOS2 is maintained and gradually extended on behalf of the state capital Dresden. Proposals for system expansion in recent years have been aimed in particular at broadening the range of users by creating tools for quality management and statistics. Aspects of environmentally compatible traffic management, special consideration of bicycle and pedestrian traffic, and a coordinated approach with public transport have continuously gained in importance.
Assigned research topics:
- Optimal control of traffic processes
- Telematics deployment
- Coordinated control of traffic control systems
- Traffic situation determination from heterogeneous online traffic data
- Floating Car Data (FCD)
- Dynamic modeling of traffic in metropolitan areas
- Operational traffic management
- Traffic control systems and centers