Redundancy Based V2V Communication Platform for Vehicle Platooning

Vehicle platooning is one solution to cope with issues such as increased risk of accidents, fuel consumption, and pollution, vehicle components wear, increased number of traffic jams, driving stress and discomfort for the passengers, increased journey duration, large vehicle-to-vehicle gaps. Advanced platooning approaches involve the need for reliable, short latency vehicle-to-vehicle communication (V2V). This work presents results obtained by V2V communication experiment with a low cost, customizable platform that supports different VANET standards for 5.9 GHz and 700 MHz frequency bands.