Personal Mobility

Historically, autonomous vehicles have been predominantly used in military applications.
There are a growing number of indicators, however, that autonomous vehicles may be used
for on-road driving in the future. For a driverless vehicle to safely navigate on the same
roadways as other driverless vehicles as well as human-driven vehicles, its behavior will need
to be generated appropriately and robustly. For an on-road vehicle, these behaviors primarily
focus on navigation. Autonomous vehicle navigation for on-road driving consists of tasks
ranging from steering and speed control to negotiating complex urban environments with stop
signs, traffic lights, other vehicles, and pedestrians. Southwest Research Institute (SwRI®)
has undertaken the Southwest Safe Transport Initiative (SSTI) aimed at investigating the
development and commercialization of vehicle autonomy as well as vehicle-based telemetry
systems to improve safety and facilitate traffic flow. This paper will discuss the modularized
approach used to perform the navigation and path planning tasks for on-road driving that have
been implemented on the SSTI autonomous vehicle. It includes details on the global route
planning, local path planning, speed profile generation, and a short discussion on planning
paths for lane changing and obstacle avoidance.

Southwest Research Institute

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

The Co-Driver Alert project has successfully developed and demonstrated end-to-end
operability of an after market fit in-vehicle hazard alert system suitable for future deployment
in the UK. The concept of the Co-Driver Alert system is to provide increased driver
awareness to both static and dynamic hazards. This paper presents the project objectives, the
technical challenges faced during the development phase, and provides a description of the
systems architecture.

Atkins Intelligent Transport Systems

University of Warwick

MIRA Ltd

Auto-txt Ltd

Ergonomics and Safety Research Institute

Ricardo UK Ltd, Cambridge Technical Centre

innovITS

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

Traffic signal reviews have been undertaken in recent years and significant improvements have been achieved using computer aids to optimise traffic signal operation. Using computer aids, coordination can be modeled and traffic signal data can be collected and reviewed as part of the process of optimisation.

Road User Services

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

As its name  implies, the multi-model navigation system not only provide user the traditional car  navigation  but  also  the  foot  navigation,  and  the  information  of  transfer  among  car navigation  and  public  transport  navigation  and  foot  navigation,  so  multiple  and  real-time information  from  various  sources  in  the  system  are  needed,  for  example,  real-time  public transport  information  and  real-time  traffic  flow  and  the  accident  information,  real-time weather  and  parking  lots  information  etc.  With  the  development  of  Web  service,  it  give multi-modal  navigation  system  a  good  solution,  we  can  get  the  multiple  static  and  dynamic information  from  different  web  services  such  as  public  transport  web  service  and  real-time parking lots web service etc.

China University of Mining & Technology

National Center of ITS Engineering and Technology

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

Motorways participate insufficiently in solving of the traffic problems in the Croatian big cities, so that it is necessary to undertake measures which would revitalize motorways and enable their
integration into the traffic systems of the Croatian cities, with the use of the already tested world and  European  models.  The  problem  points  to  the  fact  that  Croatia  has  the  highest  number  of motorways  in  relation  to  $  billion  of  GDP,  that  there  is  the  lowest  number  of  junctions  at Croatian  motorways,  and  that  the  distance  between  them  is  the  longest.  The  traffic  load  on  the Croatian  motorways  expressed  in  the  number  of  vehicle-kilometres  per  motorway  kilometre  is amongst the lowest in the World, and there is the highest distance between Croatian motorways and the centres of the big cities they connect.

Institute of Transport and Communications
Kušlanova 2, 10000 Zagreb, CROATIA

Elektromodul promet

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