The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT) is developing and promoting Next-Generation Road Services to realize Smartway. The National Institute for Land and Infrastructure Management (NILIM) of MLIT has conducted joint researches with private companies since FY 2005 andhas further developed the system of the Next-generation road services. NILIM conducted On-Road Trials, or Field Operational Tests (FOT), and a demonstration on the Metropolitan Expressway in FY 2007, and conducts FOT in the three major metropolitan regions (Tokyo, Keihanshin and Aichi) and other cities of Japan in FY 2008. This paper reports on the FOT in the three major metropolitan regions and other cities in FY 2008, as activities for the realization of the Next-Generation Road Services.
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