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A Framework For Incident Detection And Notification In Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks, Mahmoud Abuelela
A Framework For Incident Detection And Notification In Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks, Mahmoud Abuelela
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The US Department of Transportation (US-DOT) estimates that over half of all congestion events are caused by highway incidents rather than by rush-hour traffic in big cities. The US-DOT also notes that in a single year, congested highways due to traffic incidents cost over $75 billion in lost worker productivity and over 8.4 billion gallons of fuel. Further, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) indicates that congested roads are one of the leading causes of traffic accidents, and in 2005 an average of 119 persons died each day in motor vehicle accidents.
Recently, Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANET) employing a …