Toward an integrated traffic law enforcement and network management in connected vehicle environment: Conceptual model and survey study of public acceptance.

Toward an integrated traffic law enforcement and network management in connected vehicle environment: Conceptual model and survey study of public acceptance. Accid Anal Prev. 2019 Oct 01;133:105300 Authors: Alghuson M, Abdelghany K, Hassan A Abstract The increasing number of traffic accidents and their associated traffic congestion have prompted the development of innovative technologies to curb such problems. This paper proposes a novel score-based traffic law-enforcement and network management system (SLEM) that is based on connected vehicles (CV) technology. SLEM assigns a score to each driver which reflects her/his driving performance and compliance with traffic laws. The proposed system adopts a rewarding mechanism that rewards high-performing drivers and penalizes low-performing drivers who fail to obey the laws. The reward mechanism is in the form of a route guidance strategy that restricts low-score drivers from accessing certain roadway sections and time periods that are strategically selected in order to achieve an optimal traffic pattern in the network in which high-score drivers experience less congestion and a higher level of safety. A nationwide survey study was conducted to measure public acceptance of the proposed system. Another survey targeted a focused group of traffic operation and safety professionals. Based on the results of these surveys, a set of logistic regression models were developed to examine the sensiti...
Source: Accident; Analysis and Prevention. - Category: Accident Prevention Authors: Tags: Accid Anal Prev Source Type: research