Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems Solution: a Cooperative Safety Application

Recent advances in wireless communications enable the communication between vehicles, infrastructure and road users. Although the vehicles become safer and smarter due to Advanced Driver Assistance Systems, Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems have an important role to ensure that every vehicle recognizes properly the road environment. Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems applications aims to collect data from different resources like sensors, cameras, vehicles, road infrastructure, road users and analyze them to improve traffic management and road safety. The proposed system provides an innovative technological solution that implements Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems applications without substantial and costly roadway interventions, including novel Vehicle to Infrastructure, Vehicle to Vehicle and Variable Message Signs functions. This is achieved via low-cost, integrated strips on the road pavement coupled with a cooperative communication framework. The paper presents the overall system and the Cooperative Safety application. The results attested the realization of the system with low latency.