DSRC for Safer Transport – Data and Radio Communication Architectures for ITS

Wireless technologies such as Dedicated Short Range Communications (DSRC) are advancing at speed and the opportunities for use in the intelligent transport field are immeasurable and include areas such as road user charging, congestion control and fleet management. Developing intelligent infrastructure within the road transport sector will be a major research issue of the next decade. The ability to monitor, sense, manage and communicate with vehicles, the roadside control systems and the driver offers new and currently unexplored new tools to manage the road network more efficiently. To view all transportation equipment as a big network and transform the vehicle, the infrastructure and all Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) equipment in IPv6 network nodes will create new advantages for the users and for the urban traffic in general. Enabling new wireless services like DSRC shall improve the traffic flow not only in urban areas. It must be understood that safer transport shall be viewed from both sides: user (driver or pedestrian) view and ITS departments (Urban Authorities) view.