IN-VEHICLE MOTORIST INFORMATION AND NAVIGATION SYSTEM DEMONSTRATION (PATHFINDER). REPORT TO THE LEGISLATURE

This report, prepared in response to Chapter 1427, California Statutes of 1988 (Assembly Bill 1239 - Moore), summarizes the progress of the in-vehicle motorist information and navigation system demonstration known as Pathfinder. Pathfinder is a joint cooperative venture of private industry (General Motors and ETAK Inc.), the Federal Highway Administration, and the California Department of Transportation. The project is based on a cooperative sharing of real-time traffic information between a central traffic control center and specially equipped vehicles via a two-way communications link. The project will be conducted in Los Angeles along the Santa Monica freeway and the five adjacent parallel city streets and is actively supported by the City and County of Los Angeles. The Pathfinder system is an assembly of new technologies in display and information processing and employs new communication devices for transmitting traffic data and motorist information. The system design is complete and is undergoing pilot testing. The year-long field experiment will start in July 1990.

• Corporate Authors:

  California Department of Transportation

  1120 N Street
  Sacramento, CA  United States  95814
• Publication Date: 1990-6

Media Info

• Pagination: 13 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Demonstration projects; Driver information systems; Information display systems; Information processing; Pilot studies; Real time control; Reports; Route guidance; Technological innovations
• Uncontrolled Terms: Progress reports
• Geographic Terms: California
• Old TRIS Terms: Displays; Pilot study; Real-time systems
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Vehicles and Equipment; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning; I91: Vehicle Design and Safety;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00607554
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Apr 30 1991 12:00AM