AUTOGUIDE - ELECTRONIC ROUTE GUIDANCE FOR LONDON AND THE UK. SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ROAD TRAFFIC MONITORING

This paper describes the background to the London demonstration of autoguide, including in particular the very close co-operation with the German team working on the Berlin trial system, LISB. It describes the autoguide system design, and outlines the objectives for the proposed pilot system. It discusses the importance of the emerging draft standard on road-vehicle communication and looks forward to widespread European availability of compatible dynamic route guidance systems. The paper discusses in particular the opportunities offered by autoguide in traffic monitoring. Because each equipped vehicle will transmit to roadside beacons details of the traffic conditions just experienced (although not necessarily identifying the vehicle), the autoguide control centre will have an excellent up-to-the-minute picture of actual traffic conditions. It will also help to establish historic databases of flows, origin-destination patterns, and journey times. The effects will be significant, both on the operation of traffic control systems, emergency services, and other systems needing real time network information, and on the short, medium and long-term requirements for traffic surveys. (Author/TRRL)

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• Authors:
  • BELCHER, P L
  • Catling, I
• Publication Date: 1989

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 182-190
• Serial:
  • Publication of: INSTITUTION OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS
  • Publisher: Institution of Electrical Engineers
  • ISSN: 0537-9989

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Alignment; Automatic control; Automation; Conferences; Design; Driver information systems; Incident detection; Itinerary; Origin and destination; Specifications; Traffic flow; Traffic surveys; Travel time; Trip length; Urban areas
• Uncontrolled Terms: Selection
• Geographic Terms: Europe; United Kingdom
• ITRD Terms: 2894: Alignment; 3882: Automatic; 8525: Conference; 9011: Design (overall design); 8034: Europe; 1632: Incident detection; 699: Itinerary; 697: Journey time; 687: Origin destination traffic; 9072: Selection; 187: Specification (standard); 671: Traffic flow; 676: Traffic survey; 8119: United Kingdom; 313: Urban area
• Subject Areas: Design; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00493076
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• ISBN: 0-85296373-4
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: May 31 1990 12:00AM