DEVELOPMENT OF VICS ON-VEHICLE EQUIPMENT

This paper gives an overview of the Vehicle Information and Communication System (VICS) which offers real-time traffic information in three formats: FM broadcasting, radio beacons, and infrared beacons. The article also discusses specifications for the in-vehicle equipment plus the route guidance capabilities of VICS.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Publication Date: September 1996
• Corporate Authors:

  Crain Communications, Incorporated

  1155 Gratiot Avenue
  Detroit, MI  United States  48207-2997
• Authors:
  • Morita, Hiroshi
  • Mikawa, Toshimasa
• Publication Date: 1996

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 33-37
• Serial:
  • Toyota technical review. Vol. 46, no. 1
  • Publisher: Crain Communications, Incorporated

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Advanced traveler information systems; Automobile navigation systems
• Identifier Terms: VICS (Program : Japan)
• Subject Areas: Operations and Traffic Management;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00788036
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: UC Berkeley Transportation Library
• Files: PATH
• Created Date: Nov 17 2000 12:00AM