Communication and Co-operation for Traffic Systems

In this paper a new traffic management approach towards co-operative intersection management systems based on wireless exchange of traffic flow information and analysis shall be proposed. This proposal uses in-vehicle equipment combined with an innovative traffic control system. This main communication concept is placed into a modular unit in order to make the Floating Car Data of the vehicles directly available to the traffic management units by using the automotive communication technology IEEE 802.11p. This enables the availability of current information for the local and global traffic management and furthermore traffic light information for the individual traffic. Together the usage of this data offers advanced and cooperative applications for traffic management scenarios.