IMPLEMENTATION OF A "VIRTUAL BEACON" NETWORK FOR TRAFFIC INFORMATION UTILISING GPS/GSM AND DSRC

Within the Road Traffic Advisor (RTA) project (funded under the Foresight Technology programme) a set of media independent protocols and messages have been developed which allow vehicles to receive and transmit a range of data, relating to a vehicle's particular journey, network, meteorological and road status. As the RTA project relies on a beacon infrastructure, the messages within RTA have been optimised accordingly. One of the key objectives of RTA is to utilise an open architecture to ensure future exploitation and/or compatibility with different systems and technologies. Thus, the information has been designed to allow communication over a range of media. However, all the messages rely upon accurate position, bearing and time information. For a non-beacon based system this could be provided by a positioning receiver within the vehicle and a broadcast medium. This paper summarises the proposed implementation of a virtual beacon using the RTA protocols, GPS and GSM technology, and outlines the proposals for further development work. For the covering abstract see IRRD E102946.

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  ORGANIZING COMMITTEE 5TH WORLD CONGRESS

  KUSANG BLDG, 4TH FLOOR, 1009-5, DAECHI-DONG KANGNAM-KU
  SEOUL, ZZ KOREA    135-283
• Authors:
  • JAMES, L JONES
• Conference:
  • TOWARDS THE NEW HORIZON TOGETHER. PROCEEDINGS OF THE 5TH WORLD CONGRESS ON INTELLIGENT TRANSPORT SYSTEMS, HELD 12-16 OCTOBER 1998, SEOUL, KOREA. PAPER NO. 2051
• Publication Date: 1998

Language

• English

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automatic vehicle identification; Global Positioning System; Intelligent transportation systems; Messages (Communications); Radius; Traffic control; Travelers
• ITRD Terms: 8767: Automatic vehicle identification; 8531: Case study; 9126: Global positioning system; 8642: Message; 6402: Radius; 1755: Road user; 654: Traffic control
• Subject Areas: Operations and Traffic Management; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00781181
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• ISBN: 89-950073-2-X
• Files: ITRD
• Created Date: Jan 7 2000 12:00AM