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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 30, 2025
Filed:
Feb. 02, 2023
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Yashar Zeiynali Farid, Berkeley, CA (US);
Emrah A. Sisbot, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Xiaofei Cao, Mountain View, CA (US);
Haritha Muralidharan, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Kentaro Oguchi, Mountain View, CA (US);
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Abstract
Systems and methods described herein relate to configuring a hierarchical traffic management system. One embodiment receives, at a cloud server, a request from an application, the request including requirements and implicating configuration of a hierarchical traffic management system; determines, based on information received from one or more connected vehicles in an area of interest pertaining to the request, a minimum density of connected vehicles in the area of interest to meet the requirements; calculates an optimum number of connected vehicles to assign to a section manager in the hierarchical traffic management system; calculates the size of a section of the roadway to be managed by the section manager in the area of interest based, at least in part, on the minimum density of connected vehicles and the optimum number of connected vehicles; and activates the hierarchical traffic management system in accordance with the calculated size of the section.