Commercial Operations

In Japan, visual surveillance using patrol cars equipped with surveillance cameras is one of mainstream of dairy road facility management. But mobile surveillance itself is difficult to check the road condition as well as road equipment in all directions. In this paper, we propose a Mobile Mapping System (MMS) which is equipped with the carrier phased D-GPS/DR combined navigation system featuring 3 antennas GPS-gyro, two laser scanners, and several color cameras. The MMS can capture road facility positionprecisely within 0.01 [m rms]. The CAD connection system consists of the road feature manual digitizing tool and Extended DM converter which transform  MMS’s data to the CAD object. Thus, most realistic and accurate road asset database records can be created with minimizing the effort required in the field and the second use of data become  possible among other application like creation, maintenance, and verification through CALS/EC. The MMS's system configuration, functions and performances as well as road equipment management system.

Waseda University

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

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

This paper presents the methodology for Mobile IP Trial Evaluation at California’s Capital
Corridor Inter-City Rail project [1] [2]. The goal of the project is to pursue Pilot
Demonstrations to provide Wireless LAN, High speed Internet connectivity and Info-centric
Services on trains and this started with an initial co-operation in California’s Capitol
Corridor’s AMTRAK service subsidized by California Department of Transportation
(Caltrans) managed by the Capitol Corridor Joint Powers Authority with similar efforts at
SNCF in France and co-operation between French technology center of excellence INRETS,
GLOCOL USA and the University of California (Berkeley). The Trains Connected
Partnership Project Work Group was set up to focus on emerging standards, technologies and
evaluations which have received interest from various Rail Authorities. The focus is to
understand the best ways to incorporate satellite communication, Wi-Fi, Wi-Max, Mobile IP
and various promising technologies into broader applications such as passenger service, train
operations, safety and security. This paper reports seamless roaming simulations over
different systems using Mobile IP.

California Center for Innovative Transportation, UC Berkeley, USA

Presented at the 12th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems, November 6-10, 2005, San Francisco, California

The traffic at urban centers is a major concern for local authorities since it is responsible for
several environmental damages that affect considerably the city users’ quality of life. The
existing urban transport system must be reengineered and managed in order to get efficient
traffic solutions that mitigate the environmental side-effects reflected on air-quality, noise
levels, fuel consumption, accidents and safety, that is, an Intelligent Urban Environmental
Traffic Management. It is described an integrated modular framework developed to aid our
municipalities to accomplish that complex task and to provide them a comprehensive data
model for sustainable urban networks. The framework’s data acquisition module is presented
in more detail. Despite the European context of this research, namely the Portuguese
medium-size cities, the framework aims to be universal in its concepts and application.

University of Aveiro

Technical University of Catalonia

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

Our far infrared vehicle sensor system is a novel vehicle detector that detects vehicles based
on temperature differences. Consuming less electrical power, it can be powered by a solar cell
battery. Also, it can detect vehicles from oblique directions, and therefore it can be mounted
on a shorter mounted arm and is more aesthetically acceptable. Our far infrared vehicle sensor
is used for a profile traffic signal control system (a model project of a real-time traffic signal
control system) in Kanagawa prefecture and Ehime prefecture, Japan.

Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.

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

From the point of view of global producers, ITS products should be uniformly applicable to
global needs and markets in order to maximize return on investment. Nonetheless, some ITS
product categories, such as cooperative systems involving roadside infrastructure, must take
into consideration local conditions, resulting in product variations. In the case of solutions
proposed for intersection collision avoidance, traffic signals, signal timing, communications
technologies, road markings, roadside infrastructure and driver behaviors may all differ from
country to country. This paper compares the U.S. CICAS-V and the European SAFESPOT
projects, and illustrates how their solutions are similar, where and why they differ, and how
international standards in communications, message sets and data models are used, resulting
in lower deployment costs for all.

Tele Atlas North America

Technische Universität München

Centro Ricerche Fiat

Presented at the 15th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems, November 16-20, 2008, New York, New York