Integrated Transportation GIS for the City of Guangzhou, China

Author

Chen, S. ; Ray, C. ; Tan, J. ; Claramunt, C.

Author_Institution

Naval Acad. Res. Inst., Brest Armees

fYear

2006

fDate

38869

Firstpage

894

Lastpage

897

Abstract

This paper challenges existing transportation GIS applications and research perspectives and proposes a preliminary framework for an integrated GIS for the city of Guangzhou. This paper analyzes current conditions, needs and problems faced by the citizens and transportation agencies of Guangzhou. Nowadays, the state of traffic/transportation infrastructures of Guangzhou requires new approaches for the management and planning of urban traffic flows. Taking into account existing applications, demands and problems, the purpose of our research is to provide an integrated multimodal GIS for intelligent transportation system

Keywords

geographic information systems; road traffic; town and country planning; traffic control; traffic information systems; transportation; China; Guangzhou city; geographic information system; integrated multimodal GIS; intelligent transportation system; traffic-transportation infrastructure; urban traffic flow management-planning; Buildings; Cities and towns; Geographic Information Systems; Information management; Intelligent transportation systems; Management information systems; Road transportation; Safety; Telecommunication traffic; Urban planning;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

ITS Telecommunications Proceedings, 2006 6th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Chengdu

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9587-5

Electronic_ISBN

0-7803-9587-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ITST.2006.288698

Filename

4068731