LORAN C AUTOMATIC VEHICLE MONITORING SYSTEM. VOLUME I: STUDY RESULTS

The report describes baseline system configuration, system design, baseline systems costs, system variations, demonstration equipment, and experimental results. This Automatic Vehicle Monitoring (AVM) application was developed to facilitate the location of fleet vehicles in an urban situation, such as transit buses. LORAN C systems employ LORAN (Long-Range Radio Navigation) transmissions available from a relatively small number of transmitter reference sites. Any given vehicle derives data representative of its position with respect to three of the reference transmitters, and relays this imformation to a central location. The location of the vehicle is then computed. (Author Modified Abstract)

• Corporate Authors:

  Teledyne Systems Company

  19601 Nordhoff Street
  Northridge, CA  United States  91324
• Publication Date: 1972-7

Media Info

• Pagination: 349 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Analysis; Automatic tracking; Automatic vehicle location; Automatic vehicle monitoring; Buses; Centralized traffic control; Costs; Design; Electromagnetic wave propagation; Ground vehicles; Loran; Loran C; Passenger vehicles; Position fixing; Radio; Radio equipment; Systems engineering; Urban transportation; Wave motion
• Identifier Terms: U.S. Urban Mass Transportation Administration
• Uncontrolled Terms: Cost analysis
• Old TRIS Terms: Centralized control; Ground waves; Position finding; Radio tracking
• Subject Areas: Design; Finance; Public Transportation; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00046198
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: TSC-11164-Vol-1 Final Rpt
• Contract Numbers: DOT-UT-10012
• Files: NTIS
• Created Date: Jul 31 1973 12:00AM