DEVELOPMENT OF ROAD COMMUNICATION STANDARDS IN JAPAN

The newly established "Smartway / intelligent road" scheme which promises to make better use of the leading edge ITS technology is expected to bolster road infrastructure in Japan. A barrier to this development is unconformity in the definition for communication protocols and messages used to exchange data, which consumes considerable time and cost. The development of road communication standards has been underway since November 1997 to work out this problem by ensuring interchangeability and interoperability between devices and relevant information, as well as facilitating common use and alleviating the work of system designing. This paper describes the findings and outcome of the study focusing on three critical elements: data dictionary, message set and communication protocol. (A*) For the covering abstract see ITRD E110327.

• Corporate Authors:

  ITS America

  1100 17th Street, NW, 12th Floor
  Washington, DC  United States  20036
• Authors:
  • OKUTANI, T
  • SEKINE, I
• Conference:
  • PROCEEDINGS OF 6TH WORLD CONGRESS ON INTELLIGENT TRANSPORT SYSTEMS (ITS), HELD TORONTO, CANADA, NOVEMBER 8-12, 1999
• Publication Date: 1999

Language

• English

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Conferences; Design; Driver information systems; Intelligent transportation systems
• Geographic Terms: Japan
• ITRD Terms: 8525: Conference; 9011: Design (overall design); 8763: Driver information; 8735: Intelligent transport system; 8053: Japan
• Subject Areas: Design; Operations and Traffic Management;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00820638
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• Files: ITRD
• Created Date: Dec 5 2001 12:00AM