Commercial Operations

This study aims to achieve an efficient snow removal task by applying developed ITS
technologies and Human Machine Interface to snowplow. This paper describes the analysis of
snow removal operation on sidewalk, the mechanical type of rotary snowplow on sidewalk,
and proposes a side slip control system considering the characteristics of the snowplow
behavior to improve the longitudinal stability during operation, which is expected to be
practically used in near future.

The University of Tokyo

Presented at the ITS America Annual Conference and Exposition, November 16-20, 2008, New York, New York

Electronic payment for using road infrastructure is an area gaining on importance in the
realm of ITS. During preparation of such an electronic fee collection system, the level of
enforcement needed must be determined. This is not a trivial task, because it is affected
by many technical and economical factors. At the same time, it cannot be expected that
all decision makers are deeply involved in this field and are able to make an optimal
decision. In order to decrease the possibility to manipulate this decision process by
lobbyists, a decision support system is needed.
In this paper, a Fuzzy Expert System for determining the Optimal Level of Enforcement –
FESOLE is described. It bridges a missing part in the research concerning ITS. In this
paper, we focus mainly on the major technical features of this model. A fuzzy expert
system is used to approach this problem. It can extract and exploit knowledge of human
experts. Often vague expressions of the users are converted into a computer model, which
is at the same time very robust. Suitability of this methodology for given task is also
demonstrated in this paper.

Jenoptik Traffic Service Providing

Presented at the ITS America Annual Conference and Exposition, November 16-20, 2008, New York, New York

Dmotion is a public-private sector network of data, information and rerouting strategies for
the regional capital of Düsseldorf and the surrounding region. The project is funded by the
German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology. The main aim is to enhance the
traffic management centers of the two relevant road authorities (city and state) to one
automated and integrated system for coordinating the strategy-selection process. Once the
corresponding algorithms are set up in the existing centers and communication has been
established, the relevant rerouting strategies are fed into freely-definable workflows. During
prototypical operation, strategies are activated and coordinated in automated processes. In
various field tests, the efficiency of the system for the rerouting effects and the level of
compliance have been proved.

City of Düsseldorf, Department of Traffic Managemen

Presented at the ITS America Annual Conference and Exposition, November 16-20, 2008, New York, New York

This paper describes the implementation of a Telematics application on the strategically
important road corridor between Belfast in Northern Ireland and Dublin in the Republic of
Ireland. The acronym for the project is INSTANT (Information and Management System for
Multimodal Transport in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland). The objective of the
project was to provide traffic control, monitoring and travel information over the 160km
length of the corridor. The facilities installed include CCTV, journey time estimation using
ANPR, roadside variable message signs and data exchange using DATEX 2 protocols
between the traffic control centres in Belfast and Dublin. The project was part funded by a
grant from the INTERREG IIIA programme.

Traffic Information and Control Centre

National Roads Authority

Presented at the ITS America Annual Conference and Exposition, November 16-20, 2008, New York, New York

As we can expect that in a near future many vehicles will embed a front camera,
using the onboard camera for traffic density and flow measurement is a desirable feature for
traffic management systems. In this paper, we describe the implementation of the embedded
traffic flow measurement subsystem of the REACT and COM2REACT European Projects.
The “Traffic Sensor” includes a vehicle detection subsystem, a lane detection subsystem, and
proposes a flow estimation method. This application has been implemented and tested on a
fleet of 4 Citroën C3 vehicles, and is currently in a validation phase.

Mines Paris / ParisTech

Presented at the ITS America Annual Conference and Exposition, November 16-20, 2008, New York, New York