00727275

Monograph

https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/2263

https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/38255

This Innovations Deserving Exploratory Analysis (IDEA) project explored the applications of infrared lightwaves in Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) communication and automated vehicle control. Two IDEA products emerge from this work: a communication system between the traffic operations center (TOC) and vehicles on its highways, and an automated highway system (AHS) in which a vehicle can control its position within a lane and relative to other vehicles without driver assistance. For the communication system, on the highway side is a system of infrared lightwave transmitting-receiving terminals (HWT) which are linked via commercial telephone lines and/or computer communication networks to the TOC. On the vehicle side is the vehicle terminal (VT) with a directed and focusing laser (DAFL). The proposed AHS includes semi-spherical infrared reflecting objects implanted on the lane lines.

This ITS-IDEA project was conducted by the State University of New York, Stony Brook.

ITS-8

English

37 p.

1995-2-8

ITS-IDEA Program Project Final Report

Digital/other

Appendices (1) ; Figures (12) ; References (18) ; Tables (2)

Automated highway systems; Communication; Communication systems; Infrared radiation; Intelligent transportation systems; Lasers; Optics; Technological innovations; Vehicle to infrastructure communications

Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

NTL, TRIS, TRB

Oct 15 1996 12:00AM