DEVELOPMENT AND DEPLOYMENT OF THE ITS (INTELLIGENT TRANSPORT SYSTEMS) BY THE MINISTRY OF CONSTRUCTION

The intelligent transportation system (ITS) addressed by the Ministry of Construction is trying to integrate people, roadways, and vehicles into the whole system using telecommunication technology. The system enables people, including the elderly and the disabled, to utilize advanced roadway systems more efficiently, easily, and in more comfortable ways. The purpose of the system is to pursue the harmonious realization of transportation in safe, efficient, and smooth fashion. The Ministry of Construction declares six items as purposes and promotes aggressively the following system projects: vehicle information and communication system (VICS), electronic toll collection system (ETC), and automatic highway system (AHS). This paper gives an overview of the intelligent transportation system by the Ministry of Construction and discusses the system of the future.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Five volumes of papers and one volume of abstracts comprise the published set of conference materials.
• Corporate Authors:

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  TORANOMOM 34 MORI BUILDING 1-25-5
  TORANOMON, MINATOKU, TOKYO 105  Japan 
• Authors:
  • Iwasaki, Y
• Conference:
  • Steps Forward. Intelligent Transport Systems World Congress
  • Location: Yokohama, Japan
  • Date: 1995-11-9 to 1995-11-11
• Publication Date: 1995-11

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 2627

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automated highway systems; Electronic equipment; Information systems; Integrated systems; Intelligent transportation systems; Telecommunications; Toll collection
• Uncontrolled Terms: Systems integration
• Geographic Terms: Japan
• Old TRIS Terms: Electronic systems
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00726072
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: Volume 5
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 18 1996 12:00AM