Measurement Level Integration of GPS and Other Range and Bearing Measurement-Capable Sensors for Ubiquitous Positioning Capability

The vehicle positioning system comprising:

• a host vehicle global positioning system for determining a global position of a host vehicle;
• a vehicle-to-entity communication system for exchanging GPS data and alternative vehicle position data between a host vehicle and remote vehicles;
• and
• a processing unit for storing GPS measurement data from remote vehicles, the GPS measurement data of the remote vehicles and the host vehicle being processed within the processing unit for determining precise positioning of the host vehicle utilizing a real time kinematics positioning technique;
• wherein the alternative vehicle position data is processed in cooperation with data output from the real time kinematics positioning technique to compensate for less than an optimum number of satellites required for the real time kinematics position processing technique applied between the host vehicle and the remote vehicles.