A telemetry design for anticipating train-road crossing collisions

Every year worldwide, dozens of people are injured or killed due to the non-alert for vehicle drivers of oncoming trains or trams. This paper proposes a telemetry network approach for addressing this situation. The concept of real-time traffic management utilizing a virtual road crossing controller system is described. Using mobile communication technologies, the power of cloud computing technology and the ability to perform real time data analysis is combined with decision-making algorithms, which enables a workable solution to be demonstrated. Some additional technologies include vehicle addressing, highly accurate geo-positioning, the TMP messaging protocol, a cloud based controller concept and ad-hoc group negotiations.