A Transportation Facilities Management Tree Model Based on IPv6

Abstract

Transportation facilities management faces the challenge of huge amount of geographically dispersed facilities. Communication between them is one of the critical issues. Recent studies show that IT technology is one of efficient solutions. The development of IPv6 enables the possibility of connecting all the facilities to Internet with its large address space and improved performance in routing, mobility and safety. This paper presents a layered tree model of managing transportation facilities based on IPv6. According to the proposed model, different transportation facilities can be managed uniformly over the widely spread road network. And the paper discusses how the model structure is built, the management functions and the communication features based on the model. Then, a demo application is introduced to show that the tree structure is in accordance with next generation Internet thus could support for future ITS.