The Advanced Mobile Traffic Information and Communication System (AMTICS) is an integrated traffic information and navigation system. A three months pilot project was carried out in Tokyo, from April 1988, the first commercial system to be available in 1990. The system will display on screen in each vehicle traffic information gathered at Traffic Control and Surveillance Centers managed by the police in 74 cities. The information is reprocessed by computer at the AMTICS data processing center and broadcast to vehicles. The broadcasting system being promoted by MPT is a new radio data communication system called teleterminal. The equipment in vehicles will consist of a display, a compact disk-read only memory (CD-ROM) reader for retrieving map information stored on CDs, and a microcomputer to calculate the vehicle's position and to superimpose it on the display. The major benefit of this system will be its ability to display in real time, not only the vehicle's current position and route, but also information on traffic congestion, regulation, road work and parking. The system is also being considered for application to a business vehicle management system. The French title of this paper is `Système mobile perfectionné d'informations et de communications sur la circulation (AMTICS)'. The german title is `Mobiles perfektioniertes Verkehrs - Informations und Kommunikationssystem (AMTICS)'.
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