Feasibility of GPS-based Warning System for Roadside Workers

Roadside workers and emergency responders, such as police and emergency medical technicians, are at significant risk of being struck by vehicular traffic while performing their duties. While recent work has examined active and passive systems to reduce pedestrian collisions, current approaches require line of sight using either laser, infrared, or vision based systems. The authors address this problem by developing a global positioning system (GPS)-based solution that equips roadside workers and vehicles with GPS units to estimate the trajectory of oncoming traffic, and estimate whether worker strike is imminent. The results of this study shows that the authors approach is 91% accurate in alerting the worker and vehicle of collisions and near misses. Furthermore, accurate warnings can be provided 5-6 seconds before any potential collision, allowing time for mitigating solutions.

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  • https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCVE.2014.7297507
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• Authors:
  • Forsyth, Jason
  • Martin, Tom
  • Bowman, Darrell
• Conference:
  • 2014 International Conference on Connected Vehicles and Expo (ICCVE)
  • Location: Vienna , Austria
  • Date: 2014-11-3 to 2014-11-7
• Publication Date: 2015

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: References;
• Pagination: pp 1045-1051
• Monograph Title: 2014 International Conference on Connected Vehicles and Expo (ICCVE)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Global Positioning System; Occupational safety; Pedestrian vehicle crashes; Vehicle trajectories; Warning systems; Work zone safety; Work zone traffic control
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01617194
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 9781479967308
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Nov 21 2016 1:42PM