ITS AND WINTER TRAFFIC MEASURES IN HOKKAIDO

The Hokkaido Regional Development Bureau of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, recognizing that ITS is a promising solution to problems specific to Hokkaido, formulated the "Hokkaido ITS Promotion Plan" in December 2001. This plan is aimed at promotion of ITS in a smooth, efficient manner. This Plan divides the main Hokkaido-specific problems into five categories. For each of these categories, the plan also presents issues to be addressed and ITS services to be introduced. Given the harsh winter weather of Hokkaido, "Measures for winter roads" is by far the most important category. From January to February of 2002, "the Smart Sapporo Snow Information Experiment" was conducted. The objective of this experiment was to work towards reducing perennial winter traffic congestion in Sapporo by providing local residents with weather and road surface information.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Full Conference Proceedings available on CD-ROM.
• Corporate Authors:

  ITS America

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• Authors:
  • Takahashi, W
  • Kajiya, Y
  • Imai, M
• Conference:
  • 9th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems
  • Location: Chicago, Illinois
  • Date: 2002-10-14 to 2002-10-17
• Publication Date: 2002

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 9p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Information systems; Infrastructure; Intelligent transportation systems; Promotion; Surface course (Pavements); Traffic; Traffic congestion; Winter; Winter maintenance
• Geographic Terms: Japan
• Subject Areas: Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00960187
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 2 2003 12:00AM