A sensor networked approach for intelligent transportation systems

Safety of road travel can be increased if vehicles can be made to form groups for mutual interaction with each other. With the number of sensors available on vehicles increasing, a need has arisen to make collaborative use of the information collected by individual vehicles to form an enhanced dataset to improve the inter-vehicular safety features. This paper presents a novel approach to increase the safety of road travel using the concept of wireless sensor networks. We discuss how a group of vehicles can form a mobile ad hoc network and exchange data sensed by the on-board sensors. The fusion of these data could give a better understanding of the surrounding traffic conditions. As the simulation results show, this would definitely increase the traveling safety on the road.