Connected Vehicle: Developing the Platform to Turn Research into Reality

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s (USDOT) Connected Vehicle program is working to enable safe, interoperable communications among vehicles, infrastructures and personal communications devices on a wireless network. The program is structured around three areas: applications, technology and policy. This paper examines the technology portion of the program, which centers on the core system requirements and architecture needed to create the platform that will support connected vehicle applications. The program encompasses both dedicated short-range communications (DSRC) technologies and non-DSRC-based technologies. The move toward an open platform recognizes an expansion of the mobile platform to include multimodal forms of transportation—not only all vehicle types but also pedestrians and bicyclists. In working toward this open platform, the USDOT initiated a systems engineering project in 2010 to define the concept of operations, requirements and architecture for a core system that will enable safety, mobility and environmental applications in a connected vehicle environment where vehicles and personal mobile devices interact wirelessly. The system engineers have determined that a core system must provide services that enable data transfers between system users in a secure environment. The core system will not store data for long periods of time, be housed in a single location, host applications, or require any particular technologies other than those necessary to support the requirements. Currently, the connected vehicle core system concept of operations has been reviewed and there is a working draft of the core system architecture. The USDOT is soliciting feedback on various aspects of the connected vehicle research initiative.

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• Authors:
  • Birdsall, Michelle S
• Publication Date: 2011-11

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Pagination: pp 36-38
• Serial:
  • ITE Journal
  • Volume: 81
  • Issue Number: 11
  • Publisher: Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE)
  • ISSN: 0162-8178
  • Serial URL: https://www.ite.org/publications/ite-journal/

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Dedicated short range communications; Multimodal transportation; Open systems architecture; Research projects; System architecture; Systems engineering; Technological innovations; Vehicle to vehicle communications; Wireless communication systems
• Identifier Terms: U.S. Department of Transportation
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Research; Transportation (General); Vehicles and Equipment; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01359693
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Dec 29 2011 7:47AM