Design and implementation of a vehicle-to-vehicle based traffic information system

This paper is concerned with a vehicle-to-vehicle based traveler information system. The system relies on information exchanged by the vehicles themselves in a peer-to-peer manner; it does not involve any public investment from government agencies to build, manages and maintains the necessary infrastructure. This paper discusses the prototype design that utilizes the IEEE 802.11 wireless standards for inter-vehicle communication. A location-based broadcasting protocol is presented as well as the simulation results on an actual traffic network.