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Title: ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES: VEHICLE AND AUTOMOBILE GUIDANCE
Accession Number: 00486293
Record Type: Component
Digital Copy: Availability: Find a library where document is available Abstract: Today Automatic Vehicle Control (AVC) is getting a close, hard look as a feasible long-term tool to meet a variety of transportation objectives. As the cost of congestion and accidents goes up, complex and expensive countermeasures become more realistic. AVC has a number of potential operational benefits. They include elimination of congestion on guideways, improved trip-time predictability, increased vehicle capacity at lower cost than conventional freeways carrying manually operated vehicles, elimination of traffic disruption from off-road incidents, reduction in right-of-way requirements for new facilities, and reduction of accidents stemming from driver error or impairment. This paper discusses advances that have been made in AVC technology and the various concepts for automatic highways.
Supplemental Notes: This paper appears in Transportation Research Board Special Report 220, A Look Ahead: Year 2020, Proceedings of the Conference on Long-Range Trends and Requirements for the Nation's Highway and Public Transit Systems, June 22-24, 1988, Washington, D.C.
Monograph Title: Monograph Accession #: 00486281
Report/Paper Numbers: HS-040 656
Corporate Authors: Transportation Research Board 500 Fifth Street, NW Authors: Koltnow, Peter GPagination: pp 425-429
Publication Date: 1988
Conference:
Conference on Long-Range Trends and Requirements for the Nation's Highway and Public Transit Systems
Location:
Washington District of Columbia, United States ISBN: 0-309-04702-1
Media Type: Print
Features: References
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TRT Terms: Identifier Terms: Old TRIS Terms: Subject Areas: Economics; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Society; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning
Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
Created Date: Aug 31 1989 12:00AM
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