Traffic Law Enforcement and Management for Connected Vehicle Environment: Conceptual Model and Public Acceptance

Traffic safety is a major concern in most U.S. cities and many other places around the world. According to recent statistics, 7.27 million traffic related accidents occurred in the U.S. in 2016 resulting in more than 40,000 fatalities and an estimated $400 billion of economic losses. This paper conceptualizes an autonomous score-based traffic law-enforcement and management system (SLMS) which is based on the connected vehicle (CV) technology. The system assigns a score for each driver to reflect her/his driving performance monitored in real-time. Different from current systems that issue tickets to violating drivers, the proposed system adopts a mechanism to reward high-performing drivers who comply with the traffic laws and penalize low-performing drivers failing to obey the law. The mechanism is in the form of a route guidance system that restricts low-score drivers from accessing roadway links that are strategically selected. Hence, high-score drivers are rewarded by experiencing less congestion and a high level of safety on these roadway links. A nationwide survey study was conducted to measure the public’s acceptance to the new system. The results showed about 65.7 percent of the survey participants support the implementation of SLMS in the real-world.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AHB15 Standing Committee on Intelligent Transportation Systems.
• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Research Board

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• Authors:
  • Abdelghany, Khaled
  • Alghuson, Moadh
• Conference:
  • Transportation Research Board 98th Annual Meeting
  • Location: Washington DC, United States
  • Date: 2019-1-13 to 2019-1-17
• Date: 2019

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: References; Tables;
• Pagination: 6p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Connected vehicles; Incentives; Law enforcement; Public opinion; Traffic safety
• Candidate Terms: Vehicle infrastructure integration
• Subject Areas: Highways; Law; Operations and Traffic Management; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01698357
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: 19-01181
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Mar 1 2019 3:51PM