A Communication Network for Safe Traffic and Efficient Transportation

The main aim with this paper is not to present hard results and requirements, but to propose a new area of research for joint efforts in WWRF. Work is ongoing throughout the world in the area of communications between vehicles and between vehicles and the road infrastructure. We strongly believe that a completely self-organized wireless communication network connecting all road-users would have great abilities to reduce the total cost of traffic, which currently is a big burden to society. We further believe that automotive safety though wireless communications will become an important area for WWRF in the future. Currently, only a few actors from the telecommunications arena are involved in this work, which could be changed a lot if WWRF started to play a more important role. In this paper we describe the idea of a communications network for traffic safety and discuss some of the related work. We also express some of our ideas and opinions on such a system.