242 research outputs found
Emerging privacy challenges and approaches in CAV systems
The growth of Internet-connected devices, Internet-enabled services and Internet of Things systems continues at a rapid pace, and their application to transport systems is heralded as game-changing. Numerous developing CAV (Connected and Autonomous Vehicle) functions, such as traffic planning, optimisation, management, safety-critical and cooperative autonomous driving applications, rely on data from various sources. The efficacy of these functions is highly dependent on the dimensionality, amount and accuracy of the data being shared. It holds, in general, that the greater the amount of data available, the greater the efficacy of the function. However, much of this data is privacy-sensitive, including personal, commercial and research data. Location data and its correlation with identity and temporal data can help infer other personal information, such as home/work locations, age, job, behavioural features, habits, social relationships. This work categorises the emerging privacy challenges and solutions for CAV systems and identifies the knowledge gap for future research, which will minimise and mitigate privacy concerns without hampering the efficacy of the functions
Vehicle telematics for safer, cleaner and more sustainable urban transport:a review
Urban transport contributes more than a quarter of the global greenhouse gas emissionns that drive climate change; it also produces significant air pollution emissions. Furthermore, vehicle collisions kill and seriously injure 1.35 and 60 million people worldwide, respectively, each year. This paper reviews how vehicle telematics can contribute towards safer, cleaner and more sustainable urban transport. Collection methods are reviewed with a focus on technical challenges, including data processing, storage and privacy concerns. We review how vehicle telematics can be used to estimate transport variables, such as traffic flow speed, driving characteristics, fuel consumption and exhaustive and non-exhaustive emissions. The roles of telematics in the development of intelligent transportation systems (ITSs), optimised routing services, safer road networks and fairer insurance premia estimation are highlighted. Finally, we outline the potential for telematics to facilitate new-to-market urban mobility technologies, signalised intersections, vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication networks and other internet-of-things (IoT) and internet-of-vehicles (IoV) technologies
Purpose in the Machine: Do Traffic Simulators Produce Distributionally Equivalent Outcomes for Reinforcement Learning Applications?
Traffic simulators are used to generate data for learning in intelligent
transportation systems (ITSs). A key question is to what extent their modelling
assumptions affect the capabilities of ITSs to adapt to various scenarios when
deployed in the real world. This work focuses on two simulators commonly used
to train reinforcement learning (RL) agents for traffic applications, CityFlow
and SUMO. A controlled virtual experiment varying driver behavior and
simulation scale finds evidence against distributional equivalence in
RL-relevant measures from these simulators, with the root mean squared error
and KL divergence being significantly greater than 0 for all assessed measures.
While granular real-world validation generally remains infeasible, these
findings suggest that traffic simulators are not a deus ex machina for RL
training: understanding the impacts of inter-simulator differences is necessary
to train and deploy RL-based ITSs.Comment: 12 pages; accepted version, published at the 2023 Winter Simulation
Conference (WSC '23
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