Design and Implementation of an Intelligent Traffic Navigation System

The path planning of traditional satellite navigation system does not consider real-time traffic conditions such that the system cannot scatter the traffic flow in jam roads to other roads. If the condition of traffic jams can be transmitted to users for re-planning path, the traveling time of vehicles can be decreased significantly and the further deterioration of traffic jams can be avoided. Another issue is the vehicle parking problem. In the urban area, drivers always waste lots of time to look for parking spaces. The parking problem incurs not only the wastage of time and gas but also the deterioration of our living environment. The traffic jam is even serious while the number of vehicles for seeking parking spaces increases. Recently, Wireless Ad hoc Sensor Networks (WASN) and Vehicular Ad hoc NETworks (VANET) are both the most popular wireless ad hoc networks. WASN can supervise the alterations in the real-world environment and VANET can share the information between vehicles. Combine above two techniques will provide much more useful living information systems. The primary purpose of the project is to design and implement the driving and parking dynamic navigation system by integrating VANETs with WASNs. Though there is a single network research at present, the combinations of two kind of network integration research haven’t been found. To complete this project would not only raise the ability of theoretic research but also provide the implementation system to the public for advancing Taiwan’s technique level.

Project ID:PB10007-2309
External Project ID:NSC100-2221-E182-027