Commercial Operations

Until now rural speedways have often been left aside when it comes to implement ITS services. Nonetheless, the regional institution Conseil Général des Côtes d’Armor has already put into  service ghost drivers detection and information systems on speedways. In this paper, a significant evolution of this system is presented. It provides now a full range of services including traffic measurement, incident detection, ghost drivers detection and user information. It is being installed on a 26 Km long speedway. Complete coverage, fast installation, environmental concern, cost effectiveness are also some characteristics of the system provided by Neavia Technologies. In addition to a system description, the first results both from technical and operational standpoints will be given.

ITS Bretagne

Conseil Général des Côtes d’Armor

NEAVIA Technologies

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

The authors’ experience during oversight of over 100 ITS projects indicates that many small and medium-sized agencies are not able to maintain sufficient in-house ITS expertise to implement most ITS projects. The expertise needed includes traditional project-management skills, plus systems-engineering skills for the technology aspects. This often results in projects that are over budget, and/or late, and/or do not achieve their objectives. Some agencies succeeded by hiring a separate contractor or sharing in-house IT staff to perform Project Management and Systems Engineering functions. This paper identifies the ingredients for their success, and problems they encountered. It also explores other innovative solutions to this problem.

FHWA – California Division

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

Parking on streets for disposal of goods is a serious problem in that it causes congestion and
accidents and vehicle exhaust worsens air pollution. Regarding the above-mentioned
problem, Toyota City is not an exception. In a bid to solve this problem, the city has been
carrying out a probing experiment under which “parking lots for disposal of goods through
ETC” are designated for cooperative and preferential use by terminal logistic administrators
since 2007. The experiment is designed for future charging of fees for cooperative use under
the private-sector management.
This paper reports on the technical specifications of the ongoing experiment, feasibility of the
private-sector-led project model, and how to evaluate the results.

Toyota

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

Although ASFINAG, Austria’s motorway operator, has a relatively modern traffic management system based on fixed location gantries with variable message signs, the future of traffic management lies within the domain of I2V communication. Realizing that, ASFINAG decided to take part in the COOPERS project, a large scale European research project which focuses on co-operative traffic management. Its goal is to establish safety related service communication using two-way communication between road infrastructure and vehicles. This paper describes the efforts taken by ASFINAG to implement these services within its systems and its road infrastructure, with special emphasis on the transformation from sensor data to meaningful COOPERS service messages.

ASFINAG Maut Service GmbH

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

Since the initial introduction of ETC service in Japan in March 2001, continued
spread of the system has sharply boosted its utilization rate and rapidly increased the
number of on-board units installed in automobiles. Recently, in addition to the start of
full-scale operation of motorcycle ETC, a wide variety of new ways of using ETC have
appeared, including the introduction of Smart IC, field trials of toll collection on toll
roads, and multi-purpose use initiatives including parking lot fee collection, ferry
boarding procedures and so on.
At the same time as multi-purpose IC cards have been introduced, ETC has expanded
into the goods distribution field, and other new applications of ETC have been
developed to promote its wider use. We now wish to develop and to apply technologies
to promote overall expansion of ITS including ETC technologies.

Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport

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