Cooperative Transportation Systems provide communication and information exchange between vehicles and with the infrastructure. We expect a better dynamic traffic management on urban roads thanks to this new kind of intelligent vehicle. This PhD thesis work is involved in the future deployment of these technologies for the design of control mechanisms applied to such complex systems, composed of several interaction levels. The objective of this PhD thesis is to propose a multi-agent based modeling that couples dynamically all the system dynamics (physical dynamics, informational dynamics and control dynamics) in order to provide a distributed control of cooperative transportation systems based on the concepts of emergence and self-organization.

This work is part of a collaboration with the LICIT (Transport and Traffic Engineering Laboratory), joint research unit of IFSTTAR (French institute of science and technology for transport, development and networks) and ENTPE (National school of public works), under the supervision of Professor Nour-Eddin El Faouzi and Romain Billot. Funding for this project was provided by a grant from la région Rhône Alpes.