Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) have received much attention in recent years in academia, industry and standardization entities due to their wide impact on people's life as their scope to provide vital applications and services to improve transportation safety and mobility and to optimize the usage of available transportation resources and time. ITS applications and services rely on advanced technologies to be deployed and distributed among the intelligent infrastructure systems and vehicles system. Mainly, these technologies include but not limited to physical world perceive technologies that able to perform real world measurements and convert them into the digital world, processing and storage capabilities that operate on the digital measurements by storing, analyzing them and communication technologies include wired and wireless technologies to exchange the collected data among the vehicles them self and also to their infrastructure and vice versa.
GPS tracking devices stand at the core of the enabling perceive technologies for ITS applications and services. Indeed, the number of vehicles' GPS-enabled On-board Unit has sharply increased due to their vital and beneficial rules for both the vehicles and the drivers. GPS-based services include in-vehicle satellite navigation, vehicle security system, accident notification and tracking along with monitoring to name few. Although most of GPS-based application depend on real time information collection, the historic GPS collected data intrinsically has great potential for further offline based application such as compute the journey speed, congestion monitoring, accidents deep analysis such as reason and driver's behavior.
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...long the trip on a digitized map such as open street maps (OSM) each street segment has different attributes such as the street category (pedestrian, highway or motorway) each category has a maximum allowed speed attribute. Here, we record the number of times a vehicle violates these speed limits and the corresponding violation time durations. The resulted information is compared to predefined threshold and limits which allows the system to decide whether the vehicle violated the traffic regulations or not at a given trip. After running our model for long enough periods, we expect that tracking and ticketing system can be fed by authorized department which can be utilized to get clear view about infrastructure which can be used for developing and planning to improve the infrastructure on some field or apply some regulations which will aim to reduce traffic accidents.
Companies like Google, Tesla and Nissan, among others, have announced over the past few years that their companies are trying to develop self-driving or autonomous cars [Ref. 1 and 2]. Self-driving cars can provide many benefits to the average consumer. Studies have shown that because computers can react and process information many times faster than a human being, crashes on streets and roads can be decreased with quick and consistent evasion maneuvers by the autonomous car. They can also help maximize fuel economy by calculating the most direct and fastest routes. When the driving of an autonomous car demonstrates that the computer can safely and reliably transport the passengers to their destination, this frees up the passengers to do other things that they would not normally be able to do if they were driving the car manually. For this reason, self-driving cars can help maximize productivity of their passengers.
Self-driving cars are the wave of the future. There is much debate regarding the impact a self-driving car will have on our society and economy. Some experts believe fully autonomous vehicles will be on the road in the next 5-10 years (Anderson). This means a vehicle will be able to drive on the road without a driver or any passengers. Like any groundbreaking technology, there is a fear of the unforeseen problems. Therefore, there will need to be extensive testing before anyone can feel safe with a vehicle of this style on the road. It will also take time for this type of technology to become financially accessible to the masses, but again alike any technology with time it should be possible. Once the safety concern has been fully addressed
Technology is evolving faster than ever these days, however there is one technology that could revolutionize the transportation industry. This technology is called autonomous cars, also known as self-driving cars. Autonomous cars can be defined as a vehicle that is capable of sensing its environment, and navigating without human input. Using different techniques such as GPS and radar, autonomous cars can detect surroundings, thus removing the human element in driving. This would have a positive effect in more ways than we could ever imagine. Research suggests that self-driving cars will become more abundant in the future because they will be more cost-effective, enhance safety, and decrease traffic congestion.
The following flowchart shows the data relation and algotithm for estimate the position of user. The first step for GPS positioning is using the position of satellite and pseudorange from GPS receiver data to estimate the position of user. The simulation results for GPS satellite position are shown in T...
Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) has access to many traditional and non-traditional dynamic elements that provide superior capabilities to collect and monitor visual, seismic, and acoustic signatures of motorized vehicles. SIGINT is the only system that can be operational and maintainable in any type of climate and terrain, which provides an advantage over the United States’ (U.S.) adversaries. The process of obtaining the intelligence starts with the collection of any type of signal, whether it be infrared, electro-optical, or electronic. After the signals are collected, analysts encounter the tasks of cryptanalysis, transcription, traffic analysis, and translations of the enemy information systems; analyst then determine size, location, distance, and terrain features. The data is usually processed in overlays and graphic displays within the United States. End products are then populated into National databases for the use of the Intelligence Community. The increasing utilization of computers, the internet, satellites, sophisticated encryption, and cellular telephones have streamlined effective and accurate Human Intelligence (HUMINT); implementation of Signals Intelligence has became an important role to maintain superiority over adversaries.
There is the data that shows the drivers make use of cell phones approximately 10.6 percent of the time the vehicle in operation. The percentage is increased of the drivers that took their eyes of the forward road way that create severe accidents. This final report shows light ion the restrictions that are made by the government organizations regarding the road safety issue. (nationall high way taffic safety
GPS is a navigational aid that is satellite based. It is made up of a network of 24 satellites in orbit around the world. The first satellite was launched in 1978 and the last was put into orbit in 1994. Every 10 years another satellite is put into orbit because each satellite is made to last that amount of time. The system began as a military application but in the 1980’s the government decided to make it available to everyone, anywhere, anytime. The system finds your position by measuring the time it takes to receive the signal back to the satellite. It then does that with other satellites to triangulate your position in relation to the earth. To calculate a position in 2D the system has to be locked on to at least three satellites, but for a 3D representation you need to be locked on to at least 4 satellites. Once the position is found the GPS can calculate much more info like speed, bearing, track, distance, etc… The GPS system is very accurate; Garmin (a leader in GPS technology) states that their newest receiver is accurate up to an average of 15 meters.
Installed systems inside vehicles have become a process of differentiation to understand customers looking for cars with more than just the ability to transport people from one point to another. Introducing of information systems inside vehicles has enabled manufacturers to provide their customers with extra functionality, by means of improving the desirability of the the product towards satisfying customers and at the same time enabling new business style and models through the supplying of efficient services to customers. And this changes the existence of competition in the automobile industry
There was a time a person would use a roadmap to get from one location to another. Some also would stop and ask for directions. Today, you seldom see paper maps and people stopping at a local gas station for directions. Many vehicles come with a navigation system that provides a real-time map of the vehicle’s current location as well as systematic directions to requested destination.
GPS is a system of satellites radio-transmitters that orbit the planet in great numbers; their purpose is to be able to pinpoint the exact location of an individual or any type of vessel that is equipped with a receiver transmitter within a very small radius. GPS navigation has had a great impact upon society in general as well and its commercial and military applications. Global Positioning is made available at no cost to anyone who has a GPS receiver unit anywhere on the planet. A GPS unit is able to give the user longitude/latitude information as well as, altitude, traveling speed, distance traveled, distance remaining and time in any type of weather conditions imaginable.
point out your destination by searching through a lot of menus until you find it,
Imagine you are driving into an intersection after the light turns green. As you pull into the intersection another vehicle runs the red light and broadsides your car. If only there had been a device in your car that warned you about the vehicle’s approach, the collision may have been completely averted. In fact, this technology exists and is called Vehicle to Vehicle communication (MIT). Vehicle to Vehicle communication (V2V) is an emerging and transformative technology that has the potential to make driving safer, relieve congestion, and generally make road travel a better experience for all. Vehicle to Vehicle communication is a general term for technologies that facilitate ad hoc wireless data transmission between vehicles driving on the road and infrastructure alongside it, using dedicated short range communication (DSRC) technologies such as the 802.11p protocol, which was approved in 2010 as the standard protocol for vehicle based communication networks (IEEE). Using these protocols, vehicles share information as simple as location and speed or information as complex as electronic stability control data. These technologies may seem to be science fiction, but in fact they are being developed and deployed today by companies such as Mercedes Benz and General Motors. Initially, we planned to investigate the applications of V2V communications to autonomous vehicles only, but we later found that its applicability goes well beyond autonomous vehicles and shifted focus to V2V technologies more broadly.
It is difficult to understand that the basic function of a automobile hasn’t changed in the past 106 years.
We all use vehicles for transportation. People usually go to their desired destination either by driving their own cars or traveling in public transportation. Actually, it might be tough to choose that which one is the best selection for people to travel. Many people choose one of them according to their comfort while traveling and both of them have advantages and disadvantages in different conditions. Public transportation and driving own car both shares differences and similarities in many aspects, such as facility, cost, and comfort as well as traffic jam and accident occurrence.
Traffic congestion, is one of the major problems faced in the capitals and major cities in most countries. As with the increase in the growth rate, comes the growing demand for the use of transportation. This works with the response to the needs of the community.