Smart Driving Methodology for Connected Cars

Time is one of the life's treasure we get and can't be bought or recover. Nowadays, many of us spend a lot of time in the cars and sometime lose it in traffic congestion because of several reasons that can or can't be controlled. Most of the existing navigation solutions try to improve the driving time of each individual car but doesn't approach the improvement of the time spent in traffic for the entire navigation ecosystem. In this paper we define and apply a methodology that systematically approaches car navigation challenges by using the benefit of connected cars information sharing in order to improve the global amount of time spent in traffic without focusing on individual route finding algorithms efficiency.The proposed methodology is validated by an experiment that simulates traffic congestion on real map data corresponding to an urban area. The results proved that the global amount of time spent in traffic is decreased when connected cars information is used and shared.