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- From: daa@northbrook.Eng.Sun.COM (Dean Angelico)
- Newsgroups: ba.transportation
- Subject: IVHS Defined
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- Date: 24 Dec 92 19:43:06 GMT
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- Intelligent Vehicles and Highway Systems (IVHS) is a multi-modal approach
- to solving transportation problems. It consists of
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- Advanced Traffic Management Systems (ATMS)
- Here, information about traffic flow is coordinated
- between travelers, signal controls, and central controls
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- Advanced Traveler Information Systems (ATIS)
- Stuff like ETAK and NavTek products, GPS/map matching and
- dead reckoning systems, commercial fleet management, etc.
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- ** Advanced Public Transit Systems
- Computer controlled scheduling and intermodal coordination;
- Everyone's favorite: how to get from my block to the bus stop
- if I am a frail senior going out for chores
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- Advanced Vehicle Control Systems
- This is what everyone jumps to when they here IVHS, but in
- fact it is perhaps the furthest away
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- I probably forgot another one of the "modes." Probably something like
- "Advanced Vehicular Propulsion Systems" or something like that.
-
- [Editorial begins here...]
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- There is a lot of IVHS technology well beyond the "vaporware" stage,
- particularily in Europe and Japan, where the capacity constraints on their
- infrastructure are perhaps more accute than ours. Several programs are
- under way in LA and Florida. Also, UC Berkeley and CalTrans are perhaps the most
- progressive institutes in this country with respect to IVHS development.
- Many universities around North America are getting on the band wagon.
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- Also keep in mind that everything was once vaporware {:-)
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- To some extent I am afraid that IVHS is in fact an attempt by the automotive,
- highway, and aerospace industrial complex to keep us addicted to cars.
- However, even if this were not the case, I don't think there is enough
- political will to form a truly revolutionary change in our society.
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- In short, we are stuck with the car for a few more decades. Since computer
- and communications technology have come so far, perhaps it can help us
- live with cars and highways in a more effective manner.
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- Dean Angelico
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