ALLOCATION OF INTELLIGENCE BETWEEN THE VEHICLE AND THE INFRASTRUCTURE ON THE AUTOMATED HIGHWAY SYSTEM

An Automated Highway System (AHS) provides the promise of increased vehicle throughput without the need to acquire new right-of-way or to pour vast quantities of additional concrete. The National Automated Highway Systems Consortium are currently developing and evaluating alternative concepts for this system. There are several crosscutting issues, such as the role of the driver and the use of platoons, but the key characteristic that distinguishes the various approaches is how the sensors, communications, and command and control functions required for system operation should be distributed among the vehicles and the roadside and traffic operations center infrastructure. This paper deals with this heart of any AHS concept. More than any other concept characteristic, this one determines the safety, technological evolution rate, growth in number of equipped vehicles, total system cost, system build time, maintenance schedule, and, potentially, litigation aspects arising from use of the system.

• Corporate Authors:

  ITS America

  1100 17th Street, NW, 12th Floor
  Washington, DC  United States  20036
• Authors:
  • Jacoby, C
  • Rantowich, N
  • McKendree, T
  • Schuster, S
• Conference:
  • Intelligent Transportation: Realizing the Benefits. Proceedings of the 1996 Annual Meeting of ITS America.
  • Location: Houston, TX
  • Date: 1996-4-15 to 1996-4-18
• Publication Date: 1996

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Tables;
• Pagination: p. 601-605

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automated highway systems; Automation; Command and control systems; Communications; Cost allocation; Costs; Development; Drivers; Economic growth; Evaluation and assessment; Highways; Infrastructure; Intelligence; Litigation; Maintenance management; Maintenance practices; Safety; Schedules; Sensors; Systems; Traffic platooning
• Uncontrolled Terms: Growth rate
• Old TRIS Terms: Allocations; Highway systems
• Subject Areas: Economics; Finance; Highways; Law; Planning and Forecasting; Safety and Human Factors; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00724781
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 23 1996 12:00AM