Development of Pedestrian-Vehicle Collision Avoidance Support System

摘要

In recent years, researchers have studied extensively about vehicle collision avoidance. About 30% of fatal accidents by vehicles are happened with pedestrians in Japan. So it is necessary to develop a new system for pedestrians. The authors have developed Vehicular Collision Avoidance Support System (VCASS) based on IVC in order to prevent a vehicular collision beforehand. We propose a new Pedestrian-Vehicular Collision Avoidance Support System (P-VCASS) which extends VCASS. P-VCASS can vehicle to pedestrian communications. P-VCASS changes GPS information for a pedestrian between vehicles. Then the system warns drivers if it detects some danger of collision. P-VCASS can drastically reduce the potential accidents of vehicular and pedestrian.