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Given their wide applicability, vehicle positioning systems are being actively studied currently. As the conventional global positioning system (GPS) cannot determine the vehicle position inside tunnels and other GPS-shaded areas, we propose to improve vehicle positioning using a fuzzy logic system that can retrieve the position of a moving vehicle in such areas. The proposed system analyzes the chromaticity and frequency components of active LED illumination, which is being commonly installed at locations like inside tunnels. We verify the system performance in a test environment that resembles a tunnel. As the proposed method uses the chromaticity and frequency of LED lights for vehicle positioning, it is suitable for areas where GPS reception is poor or unavailable.