Application protocol interface for an automatic incident report service based on WAVE/UTIS

In this paper, we propose a communication protocol for an automatic report service to decrease damage from accidents and increase driver safety service for vehicles. The automatic incident report service is operated using V2X communication based on wireless access in vehicular environments (WAVE) to control the incident information from the accident car to the observing car. All observing cars can send a WAVE short message (WSM) to road side equipment (RSE) broadcasting consistently through vehicle to infrastructure (V2I) communication. Then, the information is available to be used for the service. The system can handle various incidents that have the possibility of further damage and is reported to the central ITS center through wire communication.