Automatic Traffic Violation Recording and Reporting System to Limit Traffic Accidents : Based on Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANET)

Abstract

The number of road accidents increases and causes many problems. Many people die and injured. In addition, that causes many economic, social and psychological problems that have negative impact to the development of the world. The main cause of the majority of these accidents is due to the violation of the traffic rules: driving with high speeds, crossing a red-light signal, not keeping sufficient distance with the front vehicle in the highways, driving in the wrong reverse direction, etc. As the number of roads and streets are very large and the total length of these roads is very long, there is no way to fully monitor all of them all the time by Traffic Patrol or camera systems.This paper proposes a system to automatically and autonomously detect and record the traffic violations without the help of the human being. We propose the development of a device (on-board unit) that will be placed inside the vehicle and be secured so that the vehicle’s driver cannot stop it. This on-board unit detects and records the major traffic violations committed by a vehicle in real time at any time in any place. In addition, we propose an automatic reporting system to send the committed traffic violations to the traffic authority systems.