IntelliCarTS: Intelligent Cars Transportation System

We propose IntelliCarTS (Intelligent Car Transport System), a Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) anti-collision mechanism that determines, estimates and absolves collision courses between moving vehicles based on a correlative and cooperative wireless networking scheme. The problem of collision avoidance is abstracted to the generic problem of location awareness and subsequent periodic information exchange (between vehicles). To enable location awareness, the mechanism uses a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver. Two nearby vehicles periodically exchange information about their own movement in terms of their respective position and local clock time. Using these inputs, vehicles determine whether or not they are on a collision course with each another. A Communication Cluster (based on the concept of mobile ad-hoc P2P networking) is formed, that facilitates the creation of a vehicular network characterized by self-organization, fault-tolerance, scalability, cooperation and cost efficiency. These characteristics enable avoidance of collision between vehicles in an adaptive and dynamic set up. The paper shows simulation results of the proposed IntelliCarTS concept by emulating the streets of Manhattan.