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Title:

Intelligent Cooperative Intersection for Improving Traffic Safety

Accession Number:

01477118

Record Type:

Component

Availability:

Transportation Research Board Business Office

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Abstract:

New communication technologies offer the possibility to exchange data amongst vehicles and between infrastructural entities and vehicles. These opportunities have led to the new field of the Cooperative Systems in the area of Intelligent Transport Systems. A lot of research to adapt Cooperative Systems to different areas in ITS has already taken place, but Cooperative Systems are still under development as the presented review in the paper shows. One field of application is urban intersections. These are still accident prone areas despite improved safety features in vehicles and infrastructural improvements. Through the use of data exchange among the vehicles and the infrastructure the authors developed the Intelligent Cooperative Intersection Safety System – IRIS – to improve traffic safety at urban intersections. The paper presents the concept of the IRIS application and focuses on the fusion of data directly from the vehicles, road-based detectors and the traffic light controller to create an enhanced overview of the situation at the intersection by modeling the road users’ movements. This overview is assessed afterwards and if a threat for a road user is detected, a warning message is sent to the vehicles involved in the critical situation. The paper includes a report on the tests conducted at a real intersection in the City of Dortmund, Germany. These tests proved that the IRIS concept makes a valuable contribution to make urban intersections safer.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AHB30 Vehicle-Highway Automation.

Monograph Accession #:

01470560

Report/Paper Numbers:

13-3887

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Schendzielorz, Tobias
Mathias, Paul
Busch, Fritz

Pagination:

13p

Publication Date:

2013

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 92nd Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2013-1-13 to 2013-1-17
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; References

Geographic Terms:

Dortmund (Germany)

Subject Areas:

Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; I73: Traffic Control

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2013 Paper #13-3887

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Feb 5 2013 12:45PM