Abstract

Cooperative Intelligent Transportation Systems (C-ITS) refer to road users and infrastructure that can communicate with each other and are already deployed in road traffic today. The exchanged information is processed in the participating vehicles to provide services and applications (e.g. warnings), which would have to be reconstructed in the event of an accident. The aim of this paper is to investigate opportunities and challenges for accident analysis arising from the deployment of Cooperative Intelligent Transportation Systems. After a brief introduction to Cooperative Intelligent Transportation Systems and the related issues of accident analysis, these disciplines are systematically linked. The content of the analysis follows the structure of the communication protocol stack of Cooperative Intelligent Transportation Systems and connects it with the superordinate issues of accident analysis. As a result, there are many opportunities, especially in the use of the information sent as accident data within accident analysis. The greatest challenge is considered to be the implementation for the future use of this information. In addition, tests and studies are necessary in order to be able to evaluate the influences on the reaction time of drivers or the technical implementation of applications in the future.