A low-cost distributed control architecture for intelligent transportation systems deployment in the state of Oklahoma

Abstract

Cost is a major issue for ITS deployment in Oklahoma. We introduce a novel distributed control architecture that has totally eliminated the need for an expensive monolithic traffic management center, thereby dramatically reducing the overall system cost. Analog and digital video streams from the various metro areas are seamlessly integrated by a fault tolerant, dynamically reconfigurable peer-to-peer network of low-cost geographically distributed ITS Consoles operating under the philosophy that any console should be able to control any system resource at any time.