Development of a Departure Time Planner using Quasi-Connected Vehicle Systems

Departure Time Planner (DTP) helps to efficiently manage the commute plan by providing smart travel assistance which suggests a departure from a given origin to a destination, given the desired arrival time at the destination. Towards this end, a DTP system is developed using a quasi-connected vehicle system where traffic data is collected from sparse sensor infrastructure. Novel methods and algorithms were developed accounting for the heterogeneous traffic conditions found in India. The traffic state prediction methodology based on the second-order traffic flow model shows that the system can reliably estimate the departure time for Indian conditions.