Ad-hoc mobile ip network for intelligent transportation system

A method comprising:

• at a first vehicle node,
• dynamically detecting the presence of a second vehicle node associated with a second vehicle within a neighborhood range of the first vehicle node, the first vehicle node and the second vehicle node operating in a transportation communications network;
• establishing a mobile Internet Protocol (IP) network between the first vehicle node and the second vehicle node;
• and
• monitoring events associated with the first vehicle and communicating event data associated with the events to the second vehicle node over the mobile IP network in real-time.

A system comprising:

• a plurality of wireless nodes associated with vehicles in a transportation network, each wireless node comprising:
• a mobility module to generate data on events associated with the vehicle;
• and
• a communication module to wirelessly communicate with other vehicle nodes in a neighborhood range of the node to establish a mobile Internet Protocol (IP) network between the vehicles nodes and to communicate data associated with the events to other vehicles' nodes over the mobile IP network in real-time.

A method comprising:

• in a first vehicle node comprising a processing module, a mobility module, a monitoring module and vehicle subsystems:
• establishing a mobile Internet Protocol (IP) network between the processing module and any one of the mobility module, monitoring module and vehicle subsystems;
• at the mobility module and monitoring module of the first vehicle node:
• dynamically monitoring events associated with the first vehicle;
• transmitting, in real-time, event data relating to the monitored events associated with the first vehicle to the processing module;
• and
• at the processing module of the first vehicle node:
• communicating, in real-time, and in response to the event data, command data to the vehicle subsystems, thereby to control the motion of the first vehicle.