SafeTRIP: A Bi-Directional Communication System Operating in S-Band for Road Safety and Incident Prevention

• Published in: 2012 IEEE 75th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Spring) pp. 1 - 6
• Main Authors: Celidonio, M., Di Zenobio, D., Fionda, E., Grau Panea, G., Grazzini, S., Niemann, B., Pulcini, L., Scalise, S., Sergio, E., Titomanlio, S.
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.05.2012
• Subjects: Europe; Logic gates; Real time systems; Roads; Satellite broadcasting; Satellites; Vehicles
• ISBN: 9781467309899; 1467309893
• ISSN: 1550-2252
• DOI: 10.1109/VETECS.2012.6240099

SafeTRIP is a project in progress partially financed by the Seventh Framework Programme's (FP7) European research and development activities in the subtheme of Sustainable Surface Transportation. SafeTRIP intends to implement a demonstrator of an integrated system, from data collection to service provision, that aims at optimising the use of road transport infrastructures. In this paper a general overview of the SafeTRIP architecture is presented. A detailed analysis and description of the functionalities characterizing the main elements of the system and a brief description of infomobility services such as alerting, disaster recovery and dynamic traffic data is given. A relevant part of this architecture is the Satellite Communication System which operates through the W2A Geostationary Satellite. To have an idea of the potentialities of the proposed system, a summary of functional requirements and performances relating to different types of services implemented is reported.