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
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
