Vehicle Public Safety System Design and Implementation

• Published in: International journal of ITS research Vol. 16; no. 1; pp. 16 - 25
• Main Authors: El-Mohsen, Omayma A., Zorkany, M.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer US 2018; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Automotive Engineering; Civil Engineering; Collision avoidance; Communication; Communications systems; Computer Imaging; Computer simulation; Electrical Engineering; Electronic devices; Emergency vehicles; Emergency warning programs; Engineering; Pattern Recognition and Graphics; Positioning devices (machinery); Public safety; Robotics and Automation; Systems design; Traffic accidents & safety; Traffic safety; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction; Vision; Wireless communication systems; Wireless communications; Vehicular ad hoc network (VANET); Collision avoidance; Multi-hop broadcasting; Dedicated short range communications (DSRC)
• ISSN: 1348-8503; 1868-8659
• DOI: 10.1007/s13177-016-0134-y

To enhance traffic safety with efficient transportation, a vehicle public safety system is designed and implemented for collision avoidance and emergency warning. The proposed architecture for the system combines On Board Unit development with publicly available inter-vehicle wireless communication systems and also positioning devices. A communication routing scheme is proposed based on multi-hop broadcasting scheme with a dissemination model and a suppression technique. Field test of the On Board Unit prototype and simulation model of the proposed communication routing scheme demonstrates the capability of the system to improve traffic safety with low latency, wider coverage and collision avoidance.