Author : Neha Ghaisas

Road safety has become an important issue and gained much attention for many years. The absence of driving ethics and scant regard for traffic rules coupled with problems of inadequate infrastructure and ever increasing number of vehicles leads to testing the patience of drivers. This has led to an increased number of traffic accidents and collisions. It is at this point that we need a system which is minimally invasive however completely independent and capable of taking decisions based on its initial system training and envelope boundaries. Here I have presented a review of different routing protocols which can be used for Vehicle to Vehicle (V2V) and Vehicle to Infrastructure (V2I) communication. I shall also discuss further the need of localization techniques to get the exact location of the cars through GPS and localization and once we get exact location we can check for traffic details to avoid congestion and find the shortest path from source to destination which will save our time. This will be realized by doing node to node and node to infrastructure communication.

Keywords: Vehicle to vehicle communication, Vehicle to infrastructure communication, Localization, GPS, Congestion

Article published in International Journal of Current  Engineering  and Technology, Vol.4,No.3 (June- 2014)