Safety is a significant issue on rural highways, particularly in harsh poor visibility conditions because of the heavy snowfalls or blown snow in winter. The inability to see road boundaries is of special concern, especially to snow blower drivers because they must drive even when visibility ispoor, roads are snow covered and lanes are hard to discern. This paper presents the latest development of Driver Assistance System (DAS) for snow blower deployed in Xinjiang Autonomous Region of China. Apart from the magnetic vehicle guidance technology developed by National Center of ITS Engineering and Technology of China (ITSC), the location based service (LBS) technology using GPS has also been applied to the DAS. It could provide the lane position indication, lane departure warning and road dangerous position warning function for the driver under the low visibility conditions. The system could provide efficiency and cost saving, in addition to the primary advantage of safety. For the covering abstract see ITRD E134653.
Samenvatting