Automatic traffic incident detection and reporting system

A method for automatically detecting and reporting traffic incidents, comprising:

• receiving, by an incident determination unit and a remote vehicle position determination unit, a plurality of signals from at least one of a plurality of cameras and a plurality of proximity sensors disposed on a vehicle;
• detecting, by the incident determination unit, whether an incident involving at least one remote vehicle has occurred;
• either comparing, by the incident determination unit, images from the plurality of cameras with known images of an acceptable roadway, or employing, by the incident determination unit, scene analysis algorithms;
• determining, by the incident determination unit, whether there are potholes or debris on a current roadway;
• categorizing, by the incident determination unit, a type of the incident from data gathered by the at least one of the plurality of cameras and the plurality of proximity sensors;
• determining, by the remote vehicle position determination unit, an incident location from the data gathered by the at least one of the plurality of cameras and the plurality of proximity sensors;
• and
• transmitting, by a communication unit, data related to the incident to at least one of a cloud server and an emergency service provider.

A method of detecting and handling incident reports at a cloud server, the method comprising:

• monitoring, by a cloud server, a communications network for at least one incident report including data for a traffic incident;
• verifying, by the cloud server, a validity of the at least one incident report;
• notifying, by the cloud server, an emergency services provider upon receiving and verifying the at least one incident report;
• reconstructing, by the cloud server, a scene of the traffic incident from the at least one incident report;
• sorting, by the cloud server, the data from the at least one incident report into chronological order to reconstruct the scene of the traffic incident, wherein the data is sorted according to timestamp information;
• packaging the scene and the at least one incident report into a data package;
• and
• sending, by the cloud server, the data package to a service provider for analysis.