SMART VEHICLE LOCATION FOR ITS

This paper examines the specific vehicle location needs of ITS system integrators, presents a set of field proven solutions and goes on to consider future needs. Environment, performance, functionality and economy are all considered along with emerging international standards. The need for ITS-specific products and solutions is identified. Increasingly, intelligent transport systems are required to deliver precise, reliable vehicle location data to drivers and to fleet managers in an easily digested form and with negligible latency. ITS users have been led to expect a level of performance that is extremely difficult to match in GPS-unfriendly urban environments and with rapidly increasing competition for communications bandwidth. At the same time, drivers are being expected to perform ever more complex tasks while driving. The solutions to these problems arise from a wholistic system-level approach rather than from an ad-hoc black box approach. The paper outlines an approach to ITS system design aimed at developing a range of ITS-specific vehicle location, communication and human interface products. It then focuses on the vehicle location elements, identifying specific requirements for ITS applications and the way that these can be met cost effectively. Elements considered include: (a) OEM GPS receiver; (b) In-vehicle AVL equipment; (c) In-vehicle navigation ergonomics; (d) DGPS solutions; (e) Dead-reckoning solutions; (f) GIS software; (g) Over-the-air protocols. (a) For the covering entry of this conference, please see IRRD abstract no. E200397.

• Corporate Authors:

  ITS Australia

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• Authors:
  • BRYANT, R
• Conference:
  • INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF ITS AUSTRALIA, 4TH, 1999, ADELAIDE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA
• Publication Date: 1999

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Monograph Title: Digital maps are the key components for ITS applications

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automatic control; Automation; Conferences; Geographic information systems; Global Positioning System; Intelligent transportation systems; Location; Navigation; Standardization; Vehicles
• ITRD Terms: 3882: Automatic; 8525: Conference; 8605: Geographical information system; 9126: Global positioning system; 8735: Intelligent transport system; 9061: Location; 8771: Route guidance; 9075: Standardization; 1255: Vehicle
• Subject Areas: Operations and Traffic Management; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00794841
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: ARRB
• Files: ITRD, ATRI
• Created Date: Jul 7 2000 12:00AM