Abstract

The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39247-4_6 Road traffic is experiencing a drastic increase in recent years, thereby increasing the every day traffic congestion problems, especially in cities. Vehicle density is one of the main metrics used for assessing the road traffic conditions. Currently, most of the existing vehicle density estimation approaches, such as inductive loop detectors or traffic surveillance cameras, require infrastructure-based traffic information systems to be installed at various locations. In this paper, we present I-VDE, a solution to estimate the density of vehicles that has been specially designed for Vehicular Networks. Our proposal allows Intelligent Transportation Systems to continuously estimate the vehicular density by accounting for the number of beacons received per Road Side Unit, as well as the roadmap topology. Simulation results indicate that our approach accurately estimates the vehicular density, and therefore automatic traffic controlling systems may use it to predict traffic jams and introduce countermeasures. Barrachina Villalba, J.; Garrido Picazo, MP.; Fogue, M.; Martínez, FJ.; Cano Escribá, JC.; Tavares De Araujo Cesariny Calafate, CM.; Manzoni, P. (2013). I-VDE: A Novel Approach to Estimate Vehicular Density by Using Vehicular Networks. En Ad-hoc, Mobile, and Wireless Network. Springer. 63-74. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-39247-4_6 Senia 63 74 Document type: Part of book or chapter of book