Relation between Warning Error and Vehicle Speed in Vehicle-to-Pedestrian Warning System

In order to prevent potential accidents between pedestrians and vehicles, it will be effective to introduce a vehicle-to-pedestrian warning system. The system detects potential accidents between pedestrians and vehicles in advance and sends warning to pedestrians and vehicles ahead of time so that potential accidents can be avoided. The time ahead of the potential accidents is named prior notification time and it is set in advance in the system. However, there is a difference between the prior notification time and the actual notification time due to system delay and inaccuracy of GPS localization. This difference is named warning error. The location estimation error and the speed of pedestrians and vehicles will affect the appropriate estimation of prior notification time. In this paper, how warning error is changed with vehicle speed is investigated through simulation. The simulation results show that the warning error increases as the vehicle speed increases. The maximum warning error is 2 seconds regardless of the vehicle speed. Thus, notification time delay can be reduced by estimating the maximum value of the warning error and increasing the prior notification time in advance.