INTRODUCING THE ITS PROJECT FOR THE NAGANO WINTER OLYMPICS

The Nagano Winter Olympics due to be held in February 1998 will take place in a cold climate zone with heavy snow accumulation centering around the city of Nagano. During the Olympic games, a large number of visitors is expected to come to the Olympic locations so that it can be assumed that the access road in the Olympic region will be heavily congested. The introduction of ITS system technology will therefore serve the purpose of providing appropriate traffic information to the road users and of easing the problem of traffic congestion. This report highlights the ITS project planned for the Nagano region, a project intended as an ITS model case for the whole of Japan. It also gives an account of the present status of ITS development in Japan and of the efforts made to implement the technology. For the covering abstract, see IRRD 490001.

• Corporate Authors:

  ERTICO

  326 Avenue Louis
  Brussels,   Belgium  B-1050

  ITS America

  1100 17th Street, NW, 12th Floor
  Washington, DC  United States  20036

  VERTIS

  TORANOMOM 34 MORI BUILDING 1-25-5
  TORANOMON, MINATOKU, TOKYO 105  Japan 
• Authors:
  • FUJIMAKI, N
• Conference:
  • MOBILITY FOR EVERYONE. 4TH WORLD CONGRESS ON INTELLIGENT TRANSPORT SYSTEMS, 21-24 OCTOBER 1997, BERLIN. (PAPER NO. 3169)
• Publication Date: 1997

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 8 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Conferences; Intelligent transportation systems; Prevention; Recreation; Traffic congestion; Winter
• Geographic Terms: Japan
• ITRD Terms: 8531: Case study; 8525: Conference; 632: Congestion (traffic); 8053: Japan; 9149: Prevention; 9142: Recreation; 2575: Winter
• Subject Areas: Operations and Traffic Management; Security and Emergencies;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00755822
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• Files: ITRD
• Created Date: Nov 16 1998 12:00AM