CPS: Medium: Vehicular Cyber-Physical Systems

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The objective of this research is to develop technologies to improvethe efficiency and safety of the road transportation infrastructure.The approach is to develop location-based vehicular services combiningon-board automotive computers, in-car devices, mobile phones, androadside monitoring/surveillance systems. The resulting vehicularCyber Physical Systems (CPS) can reduce travel times with smartrouting, save fuel and reduce carbon emissions by determining greenerroutes and commute times, improve safety by detecting road hazards,change driving behavior using smart tolling, and enablemeasurement-based insurance plans that incentivize good driving.This research develops distributed algorithms for predictive traveldelay modeling, feedback-based routing, and road hazard assessment.It develops privacy-preserving protocols for capturing and analyzingdata and using it for tasks such as congestion-aware tolling. It alsodevelops a secure macro-tasking software run-time substrate to ensurethat algorithms can be programmed centrally without explicitlyprogramming each node separately, while ensuring that it is safe torun third-party code. The research focuses on re-usable methods thatcan benefit multiple vehicular services, and investigates whichlessons learned from this vehicular CPS effort generalize to othersituations.Road transportation is a grand challenge problem for modern society,which this research can help overcome. Automobile vendors, component developers, and municipal authorities have all shown interest in deployment. The education plan includes outreach to local K-12 students and a new undergraduate course on transportation from a CPS perspective, which will involve term projects using the data collected in the project