Even though wrong-way driving on motorways is not very common, it causes a lot of fatal traffic accidents. The first part of this thesis presents the reasons why wrong-way driving even occurs. It describes different ways of preventing wrong-way driving by placing additional traffic signalisation around the area of motorway interchanges. It also describes ways of detecting wrong-way driving by placing sensors on interchanges that can detect a wrong driving vehicle. Beside infrastructure-dependent systems there are also wrong-way driving detecting systems that are in the vehicles. In addition to detecting they can also notify and warn other drivers about a wrong driving vehicle, which lowers the probability of a traffic accident.
In the second part of this thesis a development of a wrong-way driving detecting system is described. The developed system is an application for smart devices running on Android operating system. Since it is an application for smart devices it is accessible and can be used in any vehicle. In the newer cars the application could also be a part of the car’s default media console. The application uses sequential data about the device location which is gathered from a GNSS receiver in the device. From the coordinates of the location additional data about the location is gathered to the device for additional analysis. If the location is part of the motorway, the application starts monitoring the changes in the location and continuously analyses if the way of driving is permitted or not. When wrong-way driving is detected the app warns the driver and other users of the application.
The last part of this thesis describes advantages and disadvantages of such system and proposes different ways to enhance it. There is also a brief look in the future with autonomous vehicles.
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