Choosing the Optimal Control Option for an Intelligent Transport System

This paper discusses a new approach to road management, which is based on a unified intelligent transport system (ITS). The ITS methodology is based on modern technical means, innovative developments in the modeling of transport systems and the regulation of transport and information flows, providing end users with greater information content and safety, as well as qualitatively increasing the level of interaction between traffic participants. It is aimed at reducing operating costs, increasing the level of control over the quality of work on inter-municipal and territorial highways of the regions. At the same time, scientific research does not pay enough attention to operational management, the choice of organizational structures in the road complex and the optimal option for managing an intelligent transport system. It is shown that in the presence of various methods for choosing the optimal control options, methods for solving some problems of mathematical programming are often used. As the characteristics of control systems, defined as constraints, the time of solving a complex of control problems (the criterion of the operator’s efficiency), the labor intensity of operation, the labor intensity of design and implementation, the cost of design and implementation (the criterion of the designer’s efficiency), reliability, efficiency, upgradability, completeness of decisions (the criterion of efficiency of the consumer of information), the reliability of the decisions made, and some others are used. An integrated approach is proposed, the essence of which lies in the simultaneous consideration of the requirements of the designer, operator and information consumer on the basis of a single efficiency criterion.