Poster: Smart networked bicycles with platoon cooperation

Abstract

Urban roads are venues of social interaction where many actors try to accomplish their transportation-related individual goals. It has been demonstrated that when individuals act with scarce contextual information they offer resistance to one another's programs of action hindering coordination. In this work we address the problem of smart networked bicycles assisting cyclist coordination. Coordination is based on vehicular communications together with a cooperative adaptive cruise control. We propose to combine effective dissemination mechanisms in mesh-networks, a platoon cooperation logic, and a novel cyclist-bicycle interface to adapt the behaviour of cyclists while driving. Initial simulations and experimental results demonstrate that our cooperation mechanism helps cyclists achieve individual and collective goals, such as moving fluidly at the best possible speed while maintaining a safe distance to other cyclists

Cooperative Sensing Data Collection and Distribution with Packet Collision Avoidance in Mobile Long-Thin Networks

“…Cycling is a green and healthy style for short-distance movement, which has been studied in [ 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 ]. Eisenman et al [ 13 ] designed and implemented a mobile networked sensing system, called BikeNet, for cyclists to provide the healthiness of a given route, such as pollution levels, allergen levels, noise levels, and roughness of the terrain.…”

“…In addition, cyclists can estimate their calorie expenditure during a riding trip and keep tracking their physical exercises. Cespedes et al [ 16 ] investigated cyclist platoon cooperation for traveling at a necessary speed to arrive at the destination in a given time and maintaining a proper distance with the bicycle in front.…”

“…On the other hand, cycling has gained popularity in recent years due to concerns such as the environment and health [ 12 ]. Existing works include the bike-based mobile sensing system [ 13 ], sensor-based cyclist group tracking system [ 14 ], smartphone-based public bicycle sharing system [ 15 ], and networked bicycle platoon cooperation system [ 16 ]. In addition, multi-criteria urban bicycle routing [ 17 ] and cyclist crossing behavior model [ 18 ] are proposed for improving cycling experiences.…”

GreenBikeNet: an Intelligent Mobile Application with Green Wireless Networking for Cycling in Smart Cities

“…This is definitely not practical especially when cycling. Cespedes et al proposed in [13] a dedicated networking system that can only be used by cyclists forming a group to cooperate with each other and find coordination. No public network access is introduced which makes the system dedicated for certain applications.…”