Traffic Information Board System Using GPS

Global Positioning System (GPS) has been used recently in a variety of applications such as car navigation systems, because users can measure the latitude and the longitude of their current locations. Systems using GPS have been popularized mainly for private use, and they might be fully used to support road safety and provide traffic information, given needs for ITS in terms of social infrastructure. The authors have now developed a traffic information board system with a GPS unit and a traffic information board mounted on a vehicle that is operated in a special environment, such as a snowplow. The traffic information board provides information for drivers and following vehicles, such as distance to a passing area, while normally calculating the distance between a preset destination and the current location, aiming at supporting drivers of following cars in terms of road safety.

• Corporate Authors:

  ITS America

  1100 17th Street, NW, 12th Floor
  Washington, DC  United States  20036
• Authors:
  • Tajima, Takayuki
  • Chiba, Kazumi
• Conference:
  • 12th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems
  • Location: San Francisco California, United States
  • Date: 2005-11-6 to 2005-11-10
• Publication Date: 2005

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: CD-ROM; Figures; References;
• Pagination: 8p
• Monograph Title: Proceedings of the 12th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Car following; Driver experience; Global Positioning System; Highway safety; In vehicle annunciators; Information systems; Infrastructure; Intelligent transportation systems; Snowplows; Traffic incidents
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Safety and Human Factors; Vehicles and Equipment; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01015788
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jan 31 2006 9:56AM