Vehicle Integration Hits the Road

This article describes the coming marriage of Global Positioning System (GPS) and dedicated short-range communication (DSRC) and its importance to vehicle safety applications. Alone, neither technology can provide what a combination of the two will be able to do in terms of vehicle-to-vehicle communication, pre-crash sensing, cooperative forward-collision warning, and lane-change warning. The U.S. Department of Transportation's implementation of DSRC has been in the planning stages for years. It has been working with vehicle manufacturers to develop a business model that gets DSRC deployed in vehicles and along roadsides. Currently, vehicle manufacturers are reluctant to equip cars with DSRC if there are so few vehicles on the road with which to exchange safety information. Roadside transceivers can provide some useful safety information to new vehicles, and it is hoped that the business model will be resolved in the next couple of years.

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• Authors:
  • Proietti, Mario
• Publication Date: 2005-12

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Pagination: p 25
• Serial:
  • GPS World
  • Volume: 16
  • Issue Number: 12
  • Publisher: Advanstar Communications, Incorporated
  • ISSN: 1048-5104

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Dedicated short range communications; Global Positioning System; Motor vehicles; Safety
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors; Vehicles and Equipment; I91: Vehicle Design and Safety;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01018592
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: UC Berkeley Transportation Library
• Files: BTRIS, TRIS
• Created Date: Feb 2 2006 9:33AM