Parallel Traffic Management System and Its Application to the 2010 Asian Games

Field data are important for convenient daily travel of urban residents, reducing traffic congestion and accidents, pursuing a low-carbon environment-friendly sustainable development strategy, and meeting the extra peak traffic demand of large sporting events or large business activities, etc. To meet the field data demand during the 2010 Asian (Para) Games held in Guangzhou, China, based on the novel Artificial systems, Computational experiments, and Parallel execution (ACP) approach, the Parallel Traffic Management System (PtMS) was developed. It successfully helps to achieve smoothness, safety, efficiency, and reliability of public transport management during the two games, supports public traffic management and decision making, and helps enhance the public traffic management level from experience-based policy formulation and manual implementation to scientific computing-based policy formulation and implementation. The PtMS represents another new milestone in solving the management difficulty of real-world complex systems.