A REAL ROAD APPLICATION OF REAL TIME DRIVER INFORMATION AND SUPPORT

The Road Traffic Advisor project is now heading towards its conclusion. Over 80 5.8GHz radio beacons have been installed on 130 km of motorway. These beacons are the final link in a two-way communication chain between vehicles and Traffic Control Centres in England and Wales. This paper describes the development of the RTA project during its first two years, its plan for evaluation in the final year and initial ideas for follow-on projects. The project has developed an open media-independent architecture and a set of protocols and messages which provide location and direction specific information relevant to the road being driven by the user. It can collect information from vehicles for both road management and driver information purposes. (A*) For the covering abstract see ITRD E110327.

• Corporate Authors:

  ITS America

  1100 17th Street, NW, 12th Floor
  Washington, DC  United States  20036
• Authors:
  • Cone, R
  • WOOTTON, J
• Conference:
  • PROCEEDINGS OF 6TH WORLD CONGRESS ON INTELLIGENT TRANSPORT SYSTEMS (ITS), HELD TORONTO, CANADA, NOVEMBER 8-12, 1999
• Publication Date: 1999

Language

• English

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Conferences; Data communications; Driver information systems; Freeways; Intelligent transportation systems; Radio; Traffic control; Vehicles
• ITRD Terms: 8525: Conference; 8652: Data transmission (telecom); 8763: Driver information; 8735: Intelligent transport system; 2752: Motorway; 6947: Radio; 654: Traffic control; 1255: Vehicle
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00819260
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• Files: ITRD
• Created Date: Nov 7 2001 12:00AM