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Hongjun (Michael) Zhang Professor of Transportation Engineering Tongji University and University of California Davis November 18, 2011 VGrid: A Vehicular Wireless Mesh Network Enabled Computing Grid for Efficient Transportation Management Outline 2 ? Introduction ? VGrid framework ? Research Directions ? VGrid Simulation ? VGrid Applications ? Smoothing and Control Traffic Flow ? Safety Applications ? Other Applications ? Monitoring and Control of Environmental Impact ? Conclusion and suggestions Project Details 3 ? Funded by National Science Foundation of America ? Website: /~VGrid/ ? Faculty: ? Michael Zhang (Civil and Environmental Engineering) ? Chen-Nee Chuah (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering) ? Dipak Ghosal (Department of Computer Science) ? Graduate and Undergraduate students ? Kartik Pandit (PhD, CS) ? Haining Du (PhD, CEE) ? Behrooz Khorashadi (PhD, CS) ? Fred Liu (PhD, EE) ? Andrew Chen (MS, ECE) ? Collin Smith (MS, ECE) ? Joseph Anda (MS, CS) ? Chen Wu (Undergraduate, CS) Introduction 4 Motivation 5 ? Recent reports (March 2008 by AAA) ? U.S. car accident cost: $164.2 billion ? Traffic congestion costs the nation $67.6 billion each year ? Nearly 43,000 people die on the nations roadways each year ? Urban areas ( 3 million residents) pay two times the cost of congestion for crashes, while in areas with less than 500,000 residents, the cost of car crashes rises to seven times the cost of congestion ? National Highway Traffic Safety Administration suggest that the cost of accidents to society could be even greater than what the AAA study is predicting ? Cost to the environment? How can new wireless and computing technologies can be leveraged to address this public health challenge. Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANET) ? Multi-hop vehicular network ? Subcategory of MANET with key differences ? No power restrictions. ? Formidable computing bed ? Large storag