Implementation and Field Testing of V2V Vehicle Stopping System

Nowadays, there are limited capabilities to limit the speed of vehicles or to stop them. The current methods used within communication on the roads use informative messages that are not influencing the movement of the vehicles. Currently, to limit the speed of the vehicles only destructive and invasive methods are used. These methods can lead to threats to the health and lives involved in road traffic. In this paper, we designed and verified a unique system for influencing the speed of vehicles. The test-bed consists of two vehicles that contain COHDA-MK6 OBU devices and a mobile application for managing the vehicles. The verification for the developed system was performed on a race circuit in the Czech Republic with the cooperation of the Czech police. During the testing, two vehicles were going almost 100 km/h and the security forces in a police vehicle successfully stopped the other car. The process for stopping the car consists of the mobile application that sends the C-ITS (Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems) message that is transmitted to the target vehicle. In this paper, we successfully verified in practice on a race circuit that the proposed system to limit the speed of vehicles is working.