2013.4 - 2014.3 Yearbook of NILIM

Research Summary


Research Center for Advanced Information Technology
Reference Number Y131103
Title A study on the relief, safety and smooth ITS by means of vehicle to infrastructure cooperation
Start-End Date 2012.4-2014.3
Division Intelligent Transport System Division, Research Center for Advanced Information Technology
Author Head, Fumihiko KANAZAWA
Senior Researcher, Koichi SAKAI
Researcher, Kazufumi SUZUKI
Guest Researcher, Koichi IWATAKE
Summary This study aims to create traffic smoother services on expressways by cooperation between vehiclefs technology such as adaptive cruise control and information provision infrastructure such as ITS Spots to realize smoother traffic at sag sections which account for around 60% of causes of congestion on inter-city expressway in Japan.