Working Zone Identification for Specialized Micro Transportation Systems Using GPS Tracks

The utilization of Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) technologies often requires modifications to vehicles and/or roadside infrastructure. However, in this paper, we investigate some special transportation cases, which we call Specialized Micro Transportation Systems (SMTS), and find the applications of information technologies for them promise great benefits with simple and quick-to-implement solutions. We focus on working zone identification for two cases from agriculture and road maintenance, respectively. An expert system was developed to recognize harvested area and generate up-to-date field boundaries, using GPS data collected for combine harvesters. Similar rules from the system were adapted for patching zone identification.