INDUCTIVE RADIO (INRAD) PROJECT MANAGER'S SUMMARY : REPORT

The Inductive Radio demonstration project was designed to demonstrate the use of short range, two-way, communications between vehicles and the roadway. This report is an overview from the project manager's perspective. While Inductive Radio (INRAD) was the chosen technology the project attempted to focus on function. The microwave technology emerging in automatic toll collection shares functionality with INRAD. Despite concluding that short range, two-way communications is almost inevitable, the author presents an argument for using one-way communication as location beacons.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Publication Date: 1993 Published By: California Dept. of Transportation, Division of New Technology, Materials and Research, Sacramento, Calif.
• Corporate Authors:

  California Department of Transportation

  Division of New Technology and Research, P.O. Box 942873
  Sacramento, CA  United States  94273-0001
• Authors:
  • Winter, Walter A
• Publication Date: 1993

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: iii, 9 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Highway beacons; Intelligent transportation systems; Mobile communication systems; Radio; Route guidance
• Subject Areas: Operations and Traffic Management;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00773541
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: UC Berkeley Transportation Library
• Report/Paper Numbers: CA/TL-93/18
• Files: PATH, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Nov 17 1999 12:00AM