Road collisions avoidance using vehicular cyber-physical systems: a taxonomy and review

Background Road traffic dynamics are complex in nature. According to Zhao (2011), road traffic demonstrates various complex systems properties like non-uniformity, non-linearity, and adaptability, hence, it can be considered as complex in nature. Manley (2014) notices that individual driver behavior and unpredictable movement choices are the key reasons of complexity in road traffic. In another research study conducted by Doniec et al. (2008), it is noted that the interaction of heterogeneous road users like vehicles, pedestrians, and cyclists make the road traffic a complex phenomenon. These complex road traffic dynamics imply that it can be difficult to understand the exact dynamics of road traffic. Often times, such systems are analyzed from the individual perspective. This Abstract