AMPA Regional ITS Architecture Update

Functional Requirements: Vehicle Warning System

Description: This equipment package receives location information from nearby vehicles and uses the received information to determine if there is a possibility of collision and warn the driver. This equipment package also provides information to surrounding vehicles about its own location, speed, and other information to allow other similarly equipped vehicles to warn their drivers if necessary. The same equipment also receives alerts from responding emergency vehicles in the vicinity so the driver can be warned of the approaching emergency vehicle, increasing the safety of the driver and the emergency responder. It includes on-board equipment (OBE) that sends and receives the messages and determines if there is a need to warn the driver, and the driver information system that provides the warnings.
Functional Requirements:
  1. The vehicle shall receive vehicle location, speed, and direction information from surrounding vehicles.
  2. The vehicle shall determine vehicle proximity and closing rates and determine the likelihood of a collision.
  3. The vehicle shall warn the driver if the driver should take action to avoid a collision.
  4. The vehicle shall warn the driver of approaching emergency vehicles.
  5. The vehicle shall provide its location, speed, direction, and other information to surrounding vehicles.
  6. The vehicle shall provide its location, speed, direction, and other information to field elements.
  7. The vehicle shall receive warnings from field elements.
  8. The vehicle shall receive signage information from field elements.
  9. The vehicle shall receive road weather warnings from field elements.
  10. The vehicle shall provide its environmental data to field elements.
Included In: Connected Vehicle OBE