Vehicle Infrastructure
Integration
Vehicle Infrastructure Integration (VII) is about wirelessly connecting
vehicles with each other and roadside equipment in order to enable a
host of safety, mobility and commercial applications. The premise is
that vehicles will one day be equipped with onboard units that can communicate
with units along the roadside and at intersections, as well as with
other vehicles to provide such features as crash avoidance and advanced
transportation management.
VII offers the opportunity to know much more about traffic and roadway
conditions than ever before. Vehicles equipped with VII technology will
be able to anonymously send information that includes travel time and
environmental conditions. It may one day be possible to know traffic
conditions along every major street in urban areas as well as along
every interstate highway across the nation. This information will lead
to improved traffic signal control, ubiquitous traveler information,
better transportation plans, and reduced cost for existing transportation
data collection methods, among other benefits. There are also probably
many more applications that have yet to be thought of.
For more information, please visit the VII web page at http://www.vehicle-infrastructure.org,
or contact James Pol at James.Pol@dot.gov.
