Personal Mobility

It is desirable that newly open roads should be updated to the digital map of the navigation
system as soon as they are opened.
In Japan, new expressways and national roads are updated to the digital map relatively
quickly, because the road administrator makes this information easily accessible to map
suppliers. On the other hand, newly opened local road information is not very accessible to
the map suppliers, thus newly opened local roads are only added to the digital map after a
survey every few years.
When new roads open, cars will drive on them. We believe we can detect a newly opened
road by analyzing probe car’s location data. This paper describes the method and algorithm
used to achieve this.

ITS R&D Department, Denso Corporation

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

Quantitative evaluation of our parking assistance system (PAS) is required by automotive industry.
Main factors for the PAS quality are accuracy, density and robustness. Main technology for the PAS is
a vision-based point-tracker. In this paper, the quantitative evaluation of the PAS is boiled down to the
evaluation of those factors on the point-tracker. It is achieved using a reference set of 3D points
acquired manually. We present first the evaluation result of the tracker; second, how to use the
evaluation for monitoring tracker improvements.

Imra Europe S.A.S.

AISIN SEIKI

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

This paper will present the conclusions of the ITS Integration Plan developed for the Gateway Cities, which is
comprised of 27 cities in southeast Los Angeles county and the Port of Long Beach. This Integration Plan is unique
because it has a heavy emphasis on goods movement and the private sector as a critical partner in developing solutions
that will be effective. The focus of the paper is on the importance of the private sector in public sector plans. The
partnership of the public and private sector is critical to implementing and operating systems that benefit both the
Goods Movement industry and the public sector.

California Department of Transportation

Kimley-Horn and Associates, Inc.

Gateway Cities Council of Governments

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

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) is carrying out a two-phase
project called SmartPark to demonstrate commercial technologies for conveying
information about parking availability in real-time to truck drivers on the road 24 hours
per day, seven days per week. During Phase I, two technologies (i.e., video imaging and
magnetic sensor) will be field tested for their capability to collect data to determine
whether a truck parking area is full. One of the two technologies will be continued for
Phase II, which will be demonstrating how information on parking availability can be
disseminated in real time and used in real time to divert truckers on the road from areas
that are full to areas that have space. This is the first deployment of Intelligent
Transportation Systems (ITS) for truck parking availability in the world.

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

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

The North/West Passage Program is a collaboration of eight adjacent Northern states
along the I-90/I-94 corridor from Seattle, Washington to Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
These states share a long term vision that travelers will one day receive information
about weather, road construction, and major incident event summaries for the entire
corridor without the need to check individual state reports. A number of ITS
standards exist for data and information exchange, however the standards allow for
many optional phrases when describing events or conditions. This paper presents an
effort to develop a set of corridor-wide consistent event descriptions that can be used
by each North/West Passage state to describe major events, and ultimately support a
very effective exchange of event descriptions.

Idaho Transportation Department

Minnesota Department of Transportation

Athey Creek Consultants

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