Title
A Federated Platform Enabling a Systematic Collaboration Among Devices, Data and Functions for Smart Mobility
Author
You, Linlin (Sun Yat-sen University; Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Danaf, Mazen (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Zhao, Fang (MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART))
Guan, Jinping (Harbin Institute of Technology)
Azevedo, Carlos Lima (Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Technical University of Denmark)
Atasoy, B. (TU Delft Transport Engineering and Logistics; Massachusetts Institute of Technology) 
Ben-Akiva, Moshe (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Date
2023
Abstract
Through the vast adoption and application of emerging technologies, the intelligence and autonomy of smart mobility can be substantially elevated to address more diversified demands and supplies. Along with this trend, a systematic collaboration among three essential elements of smart mobility services, namely devices, data and functions, is being studied to comprehensively break down the intrinsic barriers that existed in current solutions, to support the integration of connectable devices, the fusion of heterogeneous data, the composability of reusable functions, and the flexibility in their cooperations. To enable such a collaboration, this paper proposes a federated platform, called Future Mobility Sensing Advisor (FMSA), which can 1) manage the three elements through standardized interfaces separately and uniformly; 2) create a fully connected knowledge graph to orchestrate the three elements efficiently and effectively; 3) support the client-server interaction in centralized and federated modes to handle service requests and edge resources with various availability and accessibilities jointly and adaptively; and 4) accommodate various mobility services to foster harmonious and sustainable mobility tenderly and invisibly. Moreover, the efficiency and effectiveness of the platform are also tested through a performance evaluation, and a pilot supported at the Great Boston Area, respectively. As a result, it shows that FMSA can 1) achieve high performance by using the two interaction modes selectively, and 2) renovate smart mobility towards sustainability through personalized services that can measure user preferences and system objectives mutually.
Subject
federated computing
federated platform
service orchestration
Smart mobility
systematic collaboration
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1109/TITS.2023.3236991
Embargo date
2023-07-23
ISSN
1524-9050
Source
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 24 (4), 4060-4074
Bibliographical note
Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.
Part of collection
Institutional Repository
Document type
journal article
Rights
© 2023 Linlin You, Mazen Danaf, Fang Zhao, Jinping Guan, Carlos Lima Azevedo, B. Atasoy, Moshe Ben-Akiva