Road transportation injuries, environmental pollution, and wasted energy and time in traffic congestion cause considerable cost to society. Some examples are the $115 billion cost of United States traffic congestion in 2009 and its predicted $23 billion annual cost in Australia by 2020. Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) are increasingly being considered to mitigate these impacts. The ben...

According to several statistics the majority of the Car accidents are caused by highspeedand disrespect of the inter-vehicles security distance. In spite of this, more than 60% of drivers do not comply with speed limits on urban roads or trunk roads. The worst situation is when a trunk road passes through a village. There, almost 80% of drivers break the speed limit. In order to give to drivers...

The Global Positioning System (GPS) is an accurate positioning system. The GPS has an accuracy that varies from 4mm up to 11m. This project in lieu of thesis investigates the state of art of the GPS navigation and positioning for outdoor and indoor environments with a particular focus to the outdoor applications. This project includes an overview of GPS system, the GPS segments, the composition...

A new reduced size single probe fed microstrip patch antenna with irregular slits has been presented to be used as a receiving antenna for Global Positioning Systems (GPS) integrated with cellular handheld mobile wireless systems. The proposed design is based on the nearly square microstrip patch antenna with two pairs of orthogonal slits cut from the edge. It has been found that this antenna o...

Global Positioning System (GPS) structural health monitoring data collection is one of the important systems in structure movement monitoring. However, GPS measurement error and noise limit the application of such systems. Many attempts have been made to adjust GPS measurements and eliminate their errors. Comparing common nonlinear methods used in the adjustment of GPS positioning for the monit...

Position determination is one of the key-elements of Location Based Services (LBS). One popular approach to positioning for LBS is using a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS). With such a system, three-dimensional positioning is available anywhere on, and above the Earth, in principle without any local or regional infrastructure. On the other hand, as satellite based radio positioning rel...

Carrier phase based DGPS systems have been used for airborne mapping for many years. Integrated GPS/INS systems are also becoming popular in order to improve the positioning accuracy, system reliability and achieve direct geo-referencing. However, this approach is limited by the current GPS constellation. Further improvement is required to achieve centimetre level positioning accuracy, which be...

The main purpose of this study is to develop a new Windows-based program that calculates a quality control parameter that shows the quality of Global Positioning System (GPS) observations using GPS data in a Receiver INdependent Exchange (RINEX) format. This new program, Global Positioning System Quality Control (GPSQC), allows general GPS users to easily and intuitively check the quality of GP...

The advent of Global Navigation Satellite Systems has brought about an additional navigational aid for aircrafts. Due to their complementary error characteristic, various approaches involving Global Positioning System coupled with the Inertial Navigation System have been looked into for complete autonomous navigation and attitude estimation of the aircraft. In this paper, we study, through simu...

The recent development of the International Global Navigation Satellite Systems Service Real-Time Pilot Project and the enormous progress in precise point positioning (PPP) techniques provide a promising opportunity for real-time determination of IntegratedWater Vapor (IWV) using GPS ground networks for various geodetic and meteorological applications. In this study, we develop a new real-time ...