2nd International ICST Workshop on Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communications

Research Article

A Method for Sharing Traffic Jam Information using Inter-Vehicle Communication

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/MOBIQW.2006.361760,
        author={ Naoki  Shibata and  Takashi  Terauchi and Tomoya  Kitani and Keiichi Yasumoto and Minoru  Ito and Teruo    Higashino},
        title={A Method for Sharing Traffic Jam Information using Inter-Vehicle Communication},
        proceedings={2nd International ICST Workshop on Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communications},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={V2VCOM},
        year={2007},
        month={5},
        keywords={},
        doi={10.1109/MOBIQW.2006.361760}
    }
    
  • Naoki Shibata
    Takashi Terauchi
    Tomoya Kitani
    Keiichi Yasumoto
    Minoru Ito
    Teruo Higashino
    Year: 2007
    A Method for Sharing Traffic Jam Information using Inter-Vehicle Communication
    V2VCOM
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/MOBIQW.2006.361760
Naoki Shibata1, Takashi Terauchi1, Tomoya Kitani1, Keiichi Yasumoto1, Minoru Ito1, Teruo Higashino1
  • 1: Dept. of Inf. Process. & Manage., Shiga Univ.

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a method for cars to autonomously and cooperatively collect traffic jam statistics to estimate arrival time to destination for each car using inter-vehicle communication. In the method, the target geographical region is divided into areas, and each car measures time to pass through each area. Traffic information is collected by exchanging information between cars using inter-vehicle communication. In order to improve accuracy of estimation, we introduce several mechanisms to avoid same data to be repeatedly counted. Since wireless bandwidth usable for exchanging statistics information is limited, the proposed method includes a mechanism to categorize data, and send important data prior to other data. In order to evaluate effectiveness of the proposed method, we implemented the method on a traffic simulator NETSTREAM developed by Toyota Central R&D Labs, conducted some experiments and confirmed that the method achieves practical performance in sharing traffic jam information using inter-vehicle communication