FEASIBILITY STUDY OF AN AUTOMOTIVE VEHICLE IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM

AN AUTOMATIC VEHICLE IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM WOULD CONSIST OF A TRANSPONDER, A CONTROL OR SENSING UNIT (ROADSIDE INTERROGATOR), A COMMUNICATION LINK AND A COMPUTER. THE TRANSPONDER WOULD BE ATTACHED TO THE VEHICLE, IDEALLY A PASSIVE UNIT, REQUIRING NO POWER, AND HAVING NO OPERATING EFFECT ON THE VEHICLE. AS A VEHICLE BEARING ONE OF THESE TRANSPONDERS COMES WITHIN RANGE OF A ROADSIDE INTERROGATOR, INFORMATION WOULD BE TRANSFERRED FROM THE TRANSPONDER TO THE ROADSIDE INTERROGATOR WHICH WILL UNIQUELY INDENTIFY THE VEHICLE. THIS INFORMATION WOULD BE TRANSMITTED BY THE COMMUNICATION LINK TO THE COMPUTER TO BE CHECKED AGAINST INFORMATION STORED IN THE COMPUTER MEMORY OR BE STORED ITSELF. THIS STUDY WAS PERFORMED TO DETERMINE THE FEASIBILITY OF ADOPTING A NATIONAL STANDARD FOR AN AUTOMATIC VEHICLE IDENTIFICATION (AVI) SYSTEM. NUMEROUS APPLICATIONS FOR SUCH A SYSTEM WERE IDENTIFIED, INCLUDING: SAFETY AND LAW ENFORCEMENT, HIGHWAY FINANCE, COMMUNICATIONS, TRANSPORTATION PLANNING, AND TRAFFIC OPERATIONS. BASED ON EVALUATION OF VARIOUS TECHNOLOGIES (OPTICAL SCANNING, ACOUSTIC, RADIOACTIVE, ELECTROMAGNETIC), IT WAS DETERMINED THAT ONE TECHNOLOGY-LOW-FREQUENCY INDUCTION IS MOST PROMISING. THE ADOPTION OF A NATIONAL STANDARD FOR AUTOMATIC VEHICLE WERE: TO DEVELOP AN AVI NUMBERING OR CODING TECHNIQUE, TO INCORPORATE THIS TECHNIQUE INTO A NATIONWIDE AFI STANDARD, AND TO DEVELOP THIS STANDARD AS SOON AS POSSIBLE SO THAT WHEN INSTALLATIONS ARE BEGUN ALL USER EQUIPMENT WILL BE COMPATIBLE. /AUTHOR/

• Corporate Authors:

  Ail Division/cutler-hammer

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  New York State Department of Transportation

  1220 Washington Avenue
  Albany, NY  United States  12232

  Bureau of Public Roads /US

  400 7th Street, SW
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • REISS, M L
  • King, G F
  • Palatnick, A S
• Publication Date: 1969-6

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automation; Coding systems; Feasibility analysis; Identification systems; Inductance; Information processing; Sensors; Standards; Vehicle detectors; Vehicles
• Uncontrolled Terms: Identification
• Old TRIS Terms: Coding
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00222584
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Bureau of Public Roads /US
• Report/Paper Numbers: Administrative
• Files: TRIS, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Nov 18 1994 12:00AM