India is the second largest country in the category of population. With the increasing population the consumption of the vehicles also increases, leading to critical burden on traffic management in the metropolitan cities and towns of the country. In 2011-12 alone, 20.4 million motorized vehicles were sold in India leading to congestion and accidents on the roads. For controlling the traffic on...

Handoff is the process of transferring data session from one cell to another in a cellular system or from one channel to another in the same cell. Intelligent transportation System (ITS) is the integration of information system applications and communications technologies to improve transportation safety and mobility and enhance system productivity. In this paper, cloud-based video capture hand...

Since the mid-1990s, the U.S. Department of Transportation (U.S. DOT) Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) has sponsored research, conducted by the John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center of the U.S. DOT Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA), aimed at integrating Positive Train Control (PTC) and Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) technologies. The objective...

Vehicular Ad Hoc Network (VANET), which is based on Dedicated Short Range Communication (DSRC) provides an opportunity to enable communication based cooperative safety systems in order to reduce road accidents and improve traffic efficiency. This paper describes the reliability of the Dedicated Short Range Communication (DSRC) to provide message authentication scheme to ensure the received mess...

Intelligent transportation system attracts a great deal of research attention because it helps enhance traffic safety, improve driving experiences, and transportation efficiency. Vehicular Ad Hoc Network (VANET) supports wireless connections among vehicles and offers information exchange, thus significantly facilitating intelligent transportation systems. Since the vehicles move fast and often ...