Twenty-First Century Vehicle Technology

This chapter describes the technical transformation that the automobile has undergone in the past years and it provides a vision for its continuing transformation in the medium-term future. The most notable and dramatic part of this future will be the automobile’s transformation from an essentially isolated island in the transportation system to a fully connected element of an integrated transportation system encompassing vehicles and their operators, and the infrastructure and its operators. Vehicle operators have always been able to take note of their immediate driving environment and to expand this view slightly with the aid of car radios and roadside signs and signals. Infrastructure operators have always done surveillance on their road networks in order to try to operate the system as knowledgeably as possible. However, the new prospect is for vehicle systems to be able to interact with public and private infrastructure systems to provide better information to drivers and infrastructure managers and to allow the systems to facilitate accurate, broad-based, high-speed cooperation among all parties in the newly integrated environment.

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• Authors:
  • Weiland, Richard J
  • Boylan, A Merriman
• Publication Date: 2004

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures;
• Pagination: pp 123-141
• Monograph Title: 2010 and Beyond. A Vision of America’s Transportation Future

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automobile drivers; Automobile ownership; Drivers; Infrastructure; Mobile radio; Radio; Technological innovations; Vehicle operations
• Uncontrolled Terms: Vehicle configuration; Vehicle-based technology
• Subject Areas: Highways; Vehicles and Equipment; I91: Vehicle Design and Safety;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01024560
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 1558131442
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: May 25 2006 7:31AM