Using Smartphones to Enable Situation Awareness on Highways

Motivated by the proliferation of Smartphone devices, the authors present a system architecture to enable the delivery and exchange of intelligent transportation systems (ITS) messages to Smartphones on the road. The purpose is to provide an ITS situation awareness system architecture that would enable application developers to build Smartphone applications for ITS mobility and safety. The authors present a “Slow Traffic Ahead” application as a means to validate the architecture and perform a field experiment in the San Francisco Bay Area comprised of 30 users to test the performance of the system. The authors conclude the paper with the data analysis and recommendations for improving the configurable parameters of the system architecture to provide better user experience and more accurate timing of alerts.

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  ITS America

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• Authors:
  • Manasseh, Christian
  • Fallah, Yaser P
  • Sengupta, Raja
  • Misener, James A
• Conference:
  • ITS America 20th Annual Meeting & Exposition
  • Location: Houston TX, United States
  • Date: 2010-5-3 to 2010-5-5
• Publication Date: 2010

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: CD-ROM
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 13p
• Monograph Title: ITS America 20th Annual Meeting & Exposition

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Alertness; Highway traffic control; Intelligent transportation systems; Messages (Communications); Mobility; Smartphones; System architecture; Text messaging; Traffic safety; Traveler information and communication systems
• Geographic Terms: San Francisco Bay Area
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01342881
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jun 23 2011 9:07AM