A Novel Forward Vehicle Collision Avoidance Methodology through Integration of Information and Communication Technologies at Intersections

The enormous growth of vehicles on the roads increases the demand of different information and communication technologies to be extensively available over the road networks for better vehicle collision avoidance activities. The most occurring vehicle collision occurring in the present scenario is the forward vehicle collisions. The forward vehicle collision occurs when a vehicle tries to overspeed and therefore tries to overtake other vehicle to reach earlier at a particular intersection. Earlier works on vehicle collision avoidance systems did not enlighten about the integrated use of different information and communication technologies (ICT) for better collision avoidance activity. In this paper, we propose a novel, methodology which was implemented in programming language C++ for forward vehicle collision avoidance by integration of different information and communication technologies (ICT) i.e different geographical positioning and sensor based techniques at intersections like low cost camera, GPS, long range ultrasonic distance sensor and also does vehicle to vehicle communication through dedicated short range communication (DSRC) i.e bluetooth at intersections. Some trial test data was taken at roorkee city, intersection and was input to the C++ implementation of the methodology proposed. The method was found to be effective for collision avoidance at intersections. Keywordsvehicle collision avoidance; sensor; intersection; global positioning system; information and communication technology (ICT)