Overview of approaches for detecting the environmental conditions of non-motorized vehicles in urban centers

© 2019 IEEE.Private transportation by bicycle or other non-motorized means is increasingly common in urban centers. Not only these modes of transport have clear economic and environmental benefits, but they are also often faster than motorized vehicles due to frequent traffic jams in congested cities. Non-motorized transportation should be as comfortable as possible to promote it further. This article investigates how smartphones carried by drivers of non-motorized vehicles can collect data about the environment and exploit these data to improve drivers' comfort. A comparative survey on different proposals that take a Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) communication approach is presented.