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A Framework of a V2X Communication System for Enhancing Vehicle and Pedestrian Safety at Un-Signalized Intersections

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Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Management Science and Engineering Management (ICMSEM 2018)

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This paper focuses on developing a framework of a vehicle-to-device (V2X) communication system for enhancing vehicle and pedestrian safety at un-signalized intersections. A comprehensive review of the literature has been made to investigate existing V2X safety applications. A cost-effective, solar-energy driven, small, and lightweight communication node device is developed to communicate with connected vehicles (CVs) via LoRa and dedicated short range communications (DSRC), and with pedestrians and unconnected vehicle through cell phones and other mobile devices via Bluetooth. A mobile application that allows pedestrians and drivers of unconnected vehicles to communicate with the communication node device and vice versa is also designed. A crash prediction algorithm is developed to identify unsafe conditions and determine appropriate CV-based safety countermeasures to be presented to system users. Finally, a CV simulation test bed is established in VISSIM to evaluate the safety benefits of the proposed methodology under various traffic and landscape conditions. The simulation results indicate that the number of conflicts increases when the penetration rate of connected devices decreases.

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Acknowledgements

This research was supported by the Youth Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 71501137), the project of Pacific Northwest Transportation Consortium, the Humanities and Social Sciences Programs of Ministry of Education in China (Grant No. 17XJC790016), the General Programs of China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (Grant No. 2015M572480), the International Postdoctoral Exchange Fellowship Program of China Postdoctoral Council (Grant No. 20150028), the project of Research Center for System Sciences and Enterprise Development (Grant No. Xq16B05), and Sichuan University (Grant No. skqy201647). The authors would like to give our great appreciation to the editors and anonymous referees for their helpful and constructive comments and suggestions, which have helped to improve this article.

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  1. College of Tourism, Economics and Management, Chengdu University, Chengdu, 610106, People’s Republic of China

    Xinxin Xu

  2. Uncertainty Decision-Making Laboratory, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610065, People’s Republic of China

    Ziqiang Zeng

  3. Smart Transportation Applications and Research Laboratory, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA

    Ziqiang Zeng, Yinhai Wang & John Ash

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  1. Sichuan University, Chengdu, China

    Jiuping Xu

  2. Monash University, Department of Management, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    Fang Lee Cooke

  3. Fuzzy Logic Systems Institute, Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo, Japan

    Mitsuo Gen

  4. Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada

    Syed Ejaz Ahmed

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Xu, X., Zeng, Z., Wang, Y., Ash, J. (2019). A Framework of a V2X Communication System for Enhancing Vehicle and Pedestrian Safety at Un-Signalized Intersections. In: Xu, J., Cooke, F., Gen, M., Ahmed, S. (eds) Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Management Science and Engineering Management. ICMSEM 2018. Lecture Notes on Multidisciplinary Industrial Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93351-1_5

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