EV sharing second car system with ITS technologies in residential area

Author

Shibata, Kan ; Myashita, M.

Author_Institution

Assoc. of Electron. Technol. for Automobile Traffic & Driving, Tokyo, Japan

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

181

Lastpage

186

Abstract

EV sharing second car system provides convenient mobility using eco-friendly EVs for residents who have usually no access to their first car. The operations center system manages reservation of vehicle use and vehicles operation. The in-vehicle system receives user\´s information from the center system, and authenticates user\´s identity to unlock the doors of vehicle. ITS technologies make possible unmanned rental/return operation of vehicles, monitoring vehicle states from the operations center, and supporting a user during the rental. In a field trial of this system, EVs were used with short duration and short mileage on the average, so EVs can be used as "second cars" in a residential area

Keywords

automated highways; electric vehicles; EV sharing second car system; ITS technologies; eco-friendly electric vehicles; in-vehicle system; operations center system; reservation management; residential area; unmanned rental/return operation; vehicle states monitoring; vehicle use; vehicles operation; Automobiles; Battery powered vehicles; Cities and towns; Hospitals; Mobile communication; Monitoring; Plugs; Space vehicles; Vehicle detection; Vehicle driving;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicle Electronics Conference, 2001. IVEC 2001. Proceedings of the IEEE International

Conference_Location

Tottori

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7229-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IVEC.2001.961750

Filename

961750