Collaborative decision making system in intelligent transportation system using distributed blockchain technology

Abstract

Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) is one of the promising applications of the Internet of Things (IoT) as the IoT system provides an easy way to collect and monitor the system. One of the critical components to make a city smart is by managing the traffic. The mode of transportation in the city is different, like bike, car, bus, auto, and rickshaw. Most of the vehicles integrated with Information Communication Technology (ICT). As the vehicles share and access the information from the ITS infrastructure, some security issue exists. The security issues are trust management, privacy, data linking, and computational problems. In this paper, the authors first identify the security issue present in the ITS model, then propose a distributed architecture of the ITS system using Blockchain. Then, the Consensus algorithm is used to perform computations in a distributed platform. Ethereum platform used to create a distributed network. The implementation and security analysis are given at the end.