The integrity of positioning systems has become an increasingly important requirement for location-based Intelligent Transports Systems (ITS). The navigation systems, such as Global Positioning System (GPS), used in ITS cannot provide the high quality positioning information required by most services, due to the various type of errors from GPS sensor, such as signal outage, and atmospheric effects, all of which are difficult to measure, or from the map matching process. Consequently, an error in the positioning information or map matching process may lead to inaccurate determination of a vehicle’s location. Thus, the integrity is require when measuring both vehicle’s positioning and other related information such as speed, to locate the vehicle in the correct road segment, and avoid errors. The integrity algorithm for the navigation system should include a guarantee that the systems do not produce misleading or faulty information; as this may lead to a significant error arising in the ITS services. Hence, to achieve the integrity requirement a navigation system should have a robust mechanism, to notify the user of any potential errors in the navigation information. The main aim of this research is to develop a robust and reliable mechanism to support the positioning requirement of ITS services. This can be achieved by developing a high integrity GPS monitoring algorithm with the consideration of speed, based on the concept of context-awareness which can be applied with real time ITS services to adapt changes in the integrity status of the navigation system. Context-aware architecture is designed to collect contextual information about the vehicle, including location, speed and heading, reasoning about its integrity and reactions based on the information acquired. In this research, three phases of integrity checks are developed. These are, (i) positioning integrity, (ii) speed integrity, and (iii) map matching integrity. Each phase uses different techniques to examine the consistency of the GPS information. A receiver autonomous integrity monitoring (RAIM) algorithm is used to measure the quality of the GPS positioning data. GPS Doppler information is used to check the integrity of vehicle’s speed, adding a new layer of integrity and improving the performance of the map matching process. The final phase in the integrity algorithm is intended to verify the integrity of the map matching process. In this phase, fuzzy logic is also used to measure the integrity level, which guarantees the validity and integrity of the map matching results. This algorithm is implemented successfully, examined using real field data. In addition, a true reference vehicle is used to determine the reliability and validity of the output. The results show that the new integrity algorithm has the capability to support a various types of location-based ITS services.

Este trabalho trata da questão da segurança viária na cidade de São José do Rio Preto. É feito um diagnóstico da situação atual, à luz da composição e estrutura dos órgãos locais envolvidos, direta ou indiretamente, com o problema; do tratamento dado à segurança viária nas áreas de engenharia, educação e esforço legal; das informações obtidas em pesquisas de campo sobre o tráfego de veículos; e dos dados de acidentes de trânsito obtidos em levantamento efetuados. Também é proposto um plano de ações para o aumento da segurança viária na cidade, contemplando medidas diversas envolvendo os seguintes aspectos: maior segurança na circulação de pedestres, redução da velocidade de circulação dos veículos, melhoria da sinalização de trânsito, promoção de campanhas educativas contínuas, implementação de políticas educativas específicas para motociclistas, aperfeiçoamento da fiscalização, criação de um departamento específico para cuidar da segurança no trânsito dentro da Secretaria de Trânsito e Transportes, informatização dos dados e processamento das informações relativas aos acidentes de trânsito, avaliação do risco de acidentes utilizando auditoria de campo e técnica de conflitos de tráfego, implementação de ações efetivas nos campos de engenharia e esforço legal para reduzir os acidentes, melhoria do transporte público, etc. / This work deals with the subject of traffic safety in the city of São José do Rio Preto. A diagnosis of the current situation, using the composition and structures of the local organs, direct or indirectly involved with the problem; of the treatment given to the traffic safety in the areas of engineering, education and legal effort; from the information obtained in field researches on the traffic of vehicles; and from the data of traffic accidents obtained is done in this work. A plan of actions is also proposed for the increase of the traffic safety in the city, considering several measures involving the following aspects : larger safety in the pedestrians\'circulation, reduction of the speed of circulation of the vehicles, improvement of the traffic signs, promotion of continuous educational campaigns, implementation of specific educational politics for motorcyclists, improvement of the police actions, creation of a specific department of traffic safety in the Traffic and Transports Secretary, utilization of computer for processing the traffic accidents information, evaluation of accidents risk using field audit and traffic conflicts techniques, implementation of effective actions in the fields of engineering and legal effort to reduce the accidents, improvement public transportation, etc.

Este trabalho trata da questão da segurança viária na cidade de São José do Rio Preto. É feito um diagnóstico da situação atual, à luz da composição e estrutura dos órgãos locais envolvidos, direta ou indiretamente, com o problema; do tratamento dado à segurança viária nas áreas de engenharia, educação e esforço legal; das informações obtidas em pesquisas de campo sobre o tráfego de veículos; e dos dados de acidentes de trânsito obtidos em levantamento efetuados. Também é proposto um plano de ações para o aumento da segurança viária na cidade, contemplando medidas diversas envolvendo os seguintes aspectos: maior segurança na circulação de pedestres, redução da velocidade de circulação dos veículos, melhoria da sinalização de trânsito, promoção de campanhas educativas contínuas, implementação de políticas educativas específicas para motociclistas, aperfeiçoamento da fiscalização, criação de um departamento específico para cuidar da segurança no trânsito dentro da Secretaria de Trânsito e Transportes, informatização dos dados e processamento das informações relativas aos acidentes de trânsito, avaliação do risco de acidentes utilizando auditoria de campo e técnica de conflitos de tráfego, implementação de ações efetivas nos campos de engenharia e esforço legal para reduzir os acidentes, melhoria do transporte público, etc. / This work deals with the subject of traffic safety in the city of São José do Rio Preto. A diagnosis of the current situation, using the composition and structures of the local organs, direct or indirectly involved with the problem; of the treatment given to the traffic safety in the areas of engineering, education and legal effort; from the information obtained in field researches on the traffic of vehicles; and from the data of traffic accidents obtained is done in this work. A plan of actions is also proposed for the increase of the traffic safety in the city, considering several measures involving the following aspects : larger safety in the pedestrians\'circulation, reduction of the speed of circulation of the vehicles, improvement of the traffic signs, promotion of continuous educational campaigns, implementation of specific educational politics for motorcyclists, improvement of the police actions, creation of a specific department of traffic safety in the Traffic and Transports Secretary, utilization of computer for processing the traffic accidents information, evaluation of accidents risk using field audit and traffic conflicts techniques, implementation of effective actions in the fields of engineering and legal effort to reduce the accidents, improvement public transportation, etc.