In shared spaces (a special type of mixed traffic), the lack of separation between traffic participants may cause traffic jams and unsafe situations in rush hours. To protect vulnerable road users and improve the efficiency when passing through a shared space, the road users with similar origin and destination can form a group, then all groups will coordinate a virtual intersection which shows the feasible crossing priorities to avoid collision. The project will deal with research problems such as online multi-agent path finding (MAPF), group merging and splitting, graph search and cooperative intersection management (CIM).
