Title :
Communication equipment evaluation and functional field tests for AHS
Author :
Nakamura, Makoto ; Ueda, Satoshi ; Kimura, K. ; Imacho, Nobuhiro
Author_Institution :
Public Work Res. Inst., Minist. of Construction, Japan
Abstract :
Automated highway system (AHS) is designed to offer vehicle control assistance by conducting continuous data transmission from roadside instrumentation to vehicles, and the eventual aim is to achieve fully automated vehicle operation. Aggressive research focusing on AHS is a major program of the intelligent transport system project. A test operation system was constructed and installed along the 3 km test field in the Public Work Research Institute (PWRI) of the Ministry of Construction. The road incident detection and warning system and function performance tests were commenced on AHS in November 1995. This paper outlines the test operation system constructed in PWRI, examines the communication related function test and operational evaluation, and reports the subsequent results. Finally, the operational function evaluation plan on a section of the Joshinetsu expressway is discussed
Keywords :
automated highways; computer vision; data communication; data communication equipment; road traffic; testing; traffic control; Joshinetsu expressway; Public Work Research Institute; automated highway system; computer vision; data transmission; function performance tests; functional field tests; incident warning system; intelligent transport system; road incident detection; roadside instrumentation; vehicle control assistance; Automated highways; Automatic control; Communication equipment; Communication system control; Control systems; Data communication; Instruments; Intelligent systems; Road vehicles; System testing;
Conference_Titel :
Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, 1996., Proceedings of the 1996 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Tokyo
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3652-6
DOI :
10.1109/IVS.1996.566410
