The intelligent vehicle-highway systems IVHS program in the United States.

Author(s)
Judycki, D. & Euler, G.
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Abstract

This paper summarises current Intelligent Vehicle-Highway Systems (IVHS) programme activities in the USA, and attempts to show how they can achieve the expected public benefits. The sources of public and private investment in the development of IVHS services are described. The two major IVHS plan documents are: (1) the IVHS America Plan, which represents the consensus views of the IVHS community on how the development of IVHS should proceed; and (2) the US DOT Plan, which describes the Federal IVHS programme. These plans complement and reinforce each other, and strategically describe the IVHS programme. The strategy's implementation will be developed by a major programme planning initiative, on which the US DOT initiative, on which the US DOT (Department of Transportation) and IVHS America are collaborating. The US DOT is supporting the implementation of a comprehensive set of operational test projects. A national systems architecture is being developed, to specify in-vehicle equipment, roadside devices, traffic management facilities, and information distribution centres and their interactions. The paper also discusses: (1) standards; (2) institutional issues; (3) planning and financing; and (4) the envisioned development of an automated highway and vehicle system (AHS).

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C 6210 (In: C 6202) /72 /73 / IRRD 869974
Source

In: Compendium of technical papers presented at the 63rd annual Institute of Transportation Engineers ITE meeting, The Hague, The Netherlands, September 19-22, 1993, p. 38-43

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