Pedestrian Safety Support Using V2P Communication Technology

Abstract

Pedestrians and cyclists account for almost half of traffic accident fatalities. To achieve the national goal of reducing traffic fatalities to 2,500 or less by the year 2020, it is critical to establish a vehicle-to-pedestrian (V2P) communication system that can help to prevent collisions by exchanging position data between pedestrians and vehicles. This research establishes the fundamental technologies for a V2P communication system. Furthermore, we have created prototypes of the pedestrian terminal and the in-vehicle terminal for experiments and verified their effectiveness.