ADVANCED HIGHWAY-VEHICLE SYSTEMS: TOWARDS THE 21ST CENTURY

This paper reports a session of the PIARC Yokahama Meeting Session on 26 April 1993, where three keynote addresses were made about the state of worldwide research and development (R&D) on road vehicle systems. The subsequent discussion is also included. Dennis Judycki (USA) presented the R&D work of the IVHS (Intelligent Vehicle Highway System) programme on automated road and vehicle systems, which aims to have a prototype demonstration in place on a test track by 1997. Such an automated highway system could provide a nearly accident-free driving environment, double or even triple the capacities of existing roads, and perhaps encourage the use of vehicles more friendly to the environment. The IVHS test programme also includes cooperative operational test projects between various public and private bodies. Job Klijnhout (The Netherlands) outlined the European Community's PROMETHEUS and DRIVE programmes. PROMETHEUS, set up with the cooperation of the European car industry, aims to set up a European traffic system with maximal efficiency and unprecedented safety. It has a very wide range of objectives in safety, environment, etc. DRIVE aims to find practical applications for road transport informatics (RTI). Hiranao Kawashima (Japan) presented the Japanese ARTS (Advanced Road Transport Systems) programme, which is applying systems engineering to integrate the functions of roadside facilities and in-vehicle equipment, and applying advanced communication and information technologies.

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• Authors:
  • JUDYCKI, D
  • Klijnhout, J
  • Kawashima, H
• Publication Date: 1993

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 35-50
• Serial:
  • Routes/Roads
  • Issue Number: 280
  • Publisher: World Road Association (PIARC)
  • ISSN: 0004-556X
  • Serial URL: http://www.piarc.org/en/publications/Routes-Roads-Magazine/

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Driver information systems; Highway capacity; Information processing; Telecommunications
• Uncontrolled Terms: Increase
• ITRD Terms: 643: Capacity (road, footway); 8655: Data processing; 9032: Increase; 9117: Telecommunication
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00647892
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• Files: ITRD
• Created Date: Jun 17 1994 12:00AM