Wireless communication-based measurement of vehicle speed and traffic volume

The term Intelligent Transport System generally refers to a system that manages road traffic using information and communication technologies. One of the most important parts of it is the vehicle detection which provides vehicular data such as volume, density, and speed. This paper proposes a vehicle detection method which measures volume and speed using vehicle-to-infrastructure communication and the Global Positioning System. It can be implemented on roadway infrastructure with or without other vehicle detection techniques such as loop detectors.