Connected Vehicles: Intelligent Transport Systems

The world so far has witnessed an exponential growth of vehicle on road. With the increase in the number of vehicles, there are evidently a large number of problems encountered on the road. Some of these problems could be named as populated and polluted roads, violation of traffic rules, road accidents, excessive wastage of fuel, delay in emergency services, etc. The proposed work intends to alleviate these problems by designing a long-range decentralized network of vehicles. All the vehicles within the range of a kilometer will be able to communicate with each other to solve all the specified problems. The major focus of the work will be on designing a secure network within the range of a few hundred meters. A specified code word will be broadcasted from each vehicle in such a way that there occurs no data collision between transmissions from different vehicles. First and foremost the transmitted code will specify if the vehicle is facing an emergency situation or not. The additional information in the code will include the address of the vehicle in network, checksum, and parity to ensure accurate transmission of data.