The convergence of Internet of Things, Blockchain and Connected Vehicles: Conceptual Advantages and Disadvantages of a new Cooperative Intelligent Transportation System

2021 ◽  
Vol 03 (01) ◽  
pp. 33-41
Author(s):  
Vittorio Astarita ◽  
Vincenzo Pasquale Giofrè ◽  
Giuseppe Guido ◽  
Alessandro Vitale
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Intelligent Transportation Systems ◽  
Intelligent Transportation System ◽  
Main Idea ◽  
Intelligent Transportation ◽  
Transportation Systems ◽  
Connected Vehicles ◽  
City Management ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Blockchain Technology

This paper intends to explore the convergence of some technological innovations that could lead to new cooperative Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). The technologies that might soon converge and lead to some new developments are: the Blockchain Technology (BT) concept, Internet of Things (IoT) and Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAV). Advantages and disadvantages of the new concepts founding a new ITS system are discussed in this conceptual paper. Blockchain technology has been recently introduced and many research ideas have been presented for application in the transportation sector. In this paper, we discuss a system that is based on a dedicated blockchain, able to involve both drivers and city administrations in the adoption of promising and innovative technologies that will create cooperation among connected vehicles. The proposed blockchain-based system can allow city administrators to reward drivers when they are willing to share travel data. The system manages in a special way the creation of rewards which are assigned to drivers and institutions participating actively in the system. Moreover, the system allows keeping a complete track of all transactions and interactions between drivers and city management on a completely open and shared platform. The main idea is to combine connected vehicles with BT to promote Cooperative ITS use, a better use of infrastructures and a more sustainable eco-system of cryptocurrencies. A short description of BT is introduced to evidence energy problems of sustainability in the implementation of Proof of Work (PoW) that is adopted by many blockchains.

scholarly journals A Blockchain-Assisted Intelligent Transportation System Promoting Data Services with Privacy Protection

Sensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (9) ◽  
pp. 2483 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuhong Li ◽  
Kun Ouyang ◽  
Nanxuan Li ◽  
Rahim Rahmani ◽  
Haojun Yang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Intelligent Transportation Systems ◽  
Privacy Protection ◽  
Intelligent Transportation System ◽  
Intelligent Transportation ◽  
Transportation Systems ◽  
Hierarchical Organization ◽  
Test Results ◽  
Proof Of Concept ◽  
Data Services ◽  
Blockchain Technology

Being able to obtain various environmental and driving data from vehicles is becoming more and more important for current and future intelligent transportation systems (ITSs) to operate efficiently and economically. However, the limitations of privacy protection and security of the current ITSs are hindering users and vehicles from providing data. In this paper, we propose a new ITS architecture by using blockchain technology solving the privacy protection and security problems, and promoting users and vehicles to provide data to ITSs. The proposed architecture uses blockchain as a trust infrastructure to protect users’ privacy and provide trustworthy services to users. It is also compatible with the legacy ITS infrastructure and services. In addition, the hierarchical organization of chains enables the scalability of the system, and the use of smart contracts provides a flexible way for introducing new services in the ITS. The proposed architecture is demonstrated by a proof of concept implementation based on Ethereum. The test results show that the proposed architecture is feasible.

scholarly journals LPWAN-based hybrid backhaul communication for intelligent transportation systems: architecture and performance evaluation

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Taghi Shahgholi ◽  
Amir Sheikhahmadi ◽  
Keyhan Khamforoosh ◽  
Sadoon Azizi
Keyword(s):  
Low Power ◽  
Intelligent Transportation Systems ◽  
Intelligent Transportation System ◽  
Road Traffic ◽  
Intelligent Transportation ◽  
Traffic Monitoring ◽  
Transportation Systems ◽  
Area Network ◽  
Emergency Vehicle ◽  
Wide Area Network

AbstractIncreased number of the vehicles on the streets around the world has led to several problems including traffic congestion, emissions, and huge fuel consumption in many regions. With advances in wireless and traffic technologies, the Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) has been introduced as a viable solution for solving these problems by implementing more efficient use of the current infrastructures. In this paper, the possibility of using cellular-based Low-Power Wide-Area Network (LPWAN) communications, LTE-M and NB-IoT, for ITS applications has been investigated. LTE-M and NB-IoT are designed to provide long range, low power and low cost communication infrastructures and can be a promising option which has the potential to be employed immediately in real systems. In this paper, we have proposed an architecture to employ the LPWAN as a backhaul infrastructure for ITS and to understand the feasibility of the proposed model, two applications with low and high delay requirements have been examined: road traffic monitoring and emergency vehicle management. Then, the performance of using LTE-M and NB-IoT for providing backhaul communication infrastructure has been evaluated in a realistic simulation environment and compared for these two scenarios in terms of end-to-end latency per user. Simulation of Urban MObility has been used for realistic traffic generation and a Python-based program has been developed for evaluation of the communication system. The simulation results demonstrate the feasibility of using LPWAN for ITS backhaul infrastructure mostly in favor of the LTE-M over NB-IoT.

Fog-based Intelligent Transportation System for Traffic Light Optimization

2021 ◽  
Vol 58 (S) ◽  
pp. 29-35
Author(s):  
Muhammad Rusyadi Ramli ◽  
Riesa Krisna Astuti Sakir ◽  
Dong-Seong Kim
Keyword(s):  
Intelligent Transportation Systems ◽  
Traffic Accidents ◽  
Intelligent Transportation System ◽  
Optimization Problems ◽  
Intelligent Transportation ◽  
Transportation Systems ◽  
Traffic Light ◽  
Traffic Condition ◽  
Dilemma Zone ◽  
Traffic Lights

This paper presents fog-based intelligent transportation systems (ITS) architecture for traffic light optimization. Specifically, each intersection consists of traffic lights equipped with a fog node. The roadside unit (RSU) node is deployed to monitor the traffic condition and transmit it to the fog node. The traffic light center (TLC) is used to collect the traffic condition from the fog nodes of all intersections. In this work, two traffic light optimization problems are addressed where each problem will be processed either on fog node or TLC according to their requirements. First, the high latency for the vehicle to decide the dilemma zone is addressed. In the dilemma zone, the vehicle may hesitate whether to accelerate or decelerate that can lead to traffic accidents if the decision is not taken quickly. This first problem is processed on the fog node since it requires a real-time process to accomplish. Second, the proposed architecture aims each intersection aware of its adjacent traffic condition. Thus, the TLC is used to estimate the total incoming number of vehicles based on the gathered information from all fog nodes of each intersection. The results show that the proposed fog-based ITS architecture has better performance in terms of network latency compared to the existing solution in which relies only on TLC.

scholarly journals Blockchain-based Reputation for Intelligent Transportation Systems

Sensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 791 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liviu-Adrian Hîrţan ◽  
Ciprian Dobre ◽  
Horacio González-Vélez
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Intelligent Transportation Systems ◽  
Routing Algorithm ◽  
Intelligent Transportation ◽  
Transportation Systems ◽  
Traffic Information ◽  
Disruptive Technology ◽  
Average Speed ◽  
The Impact

A disruptive technology often used in finance, Internet of Things (IoT) and healthcare, blockchain can reach consensus within a decentralised network—potentially composed of large amounts of unreliable nodes—and to permanently and irreversibly store data in a tamper-proof manner. In this paper, we present a reputation system for Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). It considers the users interested in traffic information as the main actors of the architecture. They securely share their data which are collectively validated by other users. Users can choose to employ either such crowd-sourced validated data or data generated by the system to travel between two locations. The data saved is reliable, based on the providers’ reputation and cannot be modified. We present results with a simulation for three cities: San Francisco, Rome and Beijing. We have demonstrated the impact of malicious attacks as the average speed decreased if erroneous information was stored in the blockchain as an implemented routing algorithm guides the honest cars on other free routes, and thus crowds other intersections.

Optimizing Aggregation Level for Intelligent Transportation System Data Based on Wavelet Decomposition

2003 ◽  
Vol 1840 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fengxiang Qiao ◽  
Xin Wang ◽  
Lei Yu
Keyword(s):  
Intelligent Transportation Systems ◽  
Wavelet Decomposition ◽  
Intelligent Transportation System ◽  
Intelligent Transportation ◽  
Transportation Systems ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Time Data ◽  
Aggregated Data ◽  
A New Technique ◽  
Aggregation Level

Appropriate aggregation levels and sampling frames of real-time data in intelligent transportation systems (ITSs) are indispensable to transportation planners and engineers. Conventional techniques for the retrieval of aggregation levels are normally based on statistical comparison of the original and the aggregated data sets. However, it is not guaranteed that errors and noise will not be transmitted to the aggregated data sets and that the desired information will be reserved. Wavelet decomposition is a new technique that can be applied to the determination of aggregation level. An optimization process that can provide the optimized aggregation level of ITS data for different applications was developed. To illustrate the proposed technique, ITS data archived by the TransGuide Center in San Antonio, Texas, were used for a case study. Aggregation levels for different days of a week and different time periods over the whole year of 2001 were obtained through the proposed approach.

Detection of Real-Time Event in Intelligent Traffic System Based on RFID

2014 ◽  
Vol 926-930 ◽  
pp. 1314-1317 ◽  
Author(s):  
Li Yang
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Event Detection ◽  
Intelligent Transportation Systems ◽  
Intelligent Transportation System ◽  
Intelligent Transportation ◽  
Transportation Systems ◽  
Engine Model ◽  
Intelligent Traffic System ◽  
Complex Events ◽  
Rules Engine

To solve the demand of real-time event detection in the RFID-based Intelligent Transportation Systems , using Complex Event Processing technology to establish a rule model to detect events.The model allows users to customize the Basic Events and Complex Events, using the rule files describe the complex events modes, clearly expressed the timing and gradation relationships between RFID events, meeting the needs of real-time event detection in the Intelligent Transportation System ,achieving the appropriate rules engine,. Finally, test and verify the effectiveness of the rules file and the rules engine model by experiments.

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