This paper presents a framework for real-time highway
traffic condition assessment using vehicle kinetic information,
which is likely to be made available from vehicle–infrastructure
integration (VII) systems, in which vehicle and infrastructure
agents communicate to improve mobility and safety. In the proposed
VII framework, the vehicle onboard equipment and roadside
units (RSUs) collaboratively work, supported by an artificial
intelligence (AI) paradigm, to determine the occurrence and
characteristics of an incident.