Hierarchical Computing Architecture for Traffic Management

Abstract

An example method determines a plurality of traffic sections for a geographical traffic area, each traffic section including a road segment and vehicle(s) traveling on the road segment; monitors a responsive vehicle rate for a first traffic section of the plurality of traffic sections; and assigns, based on the responsive vehicle rate of the first traffic section, the first traffic section to one of a first section server dedicated to manage the first traffic section and a remote management server capable of managing the plurality of traffic sections of the geographical traffic area, the first section server comprising computing device(s) of responsive vehicle(s) in the first traffic section.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A method comprising:
 determining a plurality of traffic sections for a geographical traffic area, each traffic section including a road segment and one or more vehicles traveling on the road segment;   monitoring a responsive vehicle rate for a first traffic section of the plurality of traffic sections; and   assigning, based on the responsive vehicle rate of the first traffic section, the first traffic section to one of a first section server dedicated to manage the first traffic section and a remote management server capable of managing the plurality of traffic sections of the geographical traffic area, the first section server comprising one or more computing devices of one or more responsive vehicles in the first traffic section.