Concept of UTMS in Saitama Prefecture

Author

Yamaki, Takeo ; Saito, Fumio

Author_Institution

Traffic Control Sect., Saitama Prefectural Police Headquarters, Japan

fYear

1999

fDate

6/21/1905 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

571

Lastpage

576

Abstract

This paper describes the present status and future development of a new traffic management system (UTMS) with the object of new traffic management to be adopted by the National Police Agency in Japan. UTMS is an integrated system which reforms congested traffic flow to well-generated flow by means of dispersion, guidance and a right of passing etc., adopting two-way communication between vehicles and facilities in general roads. An infrared optical beacon is featured as the key infrastructure allowing two-way communication between an in-vehicle unit and on-road facilities. Improvement of the public transportation system is being planned

Keywords

automated highways; driver information systems; road traffic; National Police Agency; Saitama Prefecture; UTMS; congested traffic flow; in-vehicle unit; infrared optical beacon; integrated system; on-road facilities; public transportation system; traffic management system; two-way communication; vehicles; Centralized control; Communication system traffic control; Control systems; Injuries; Pollution measurement; Road accidents; Road transportation; Road vehicles; Traffic control; Turing machines;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Transportation Systems, 1999. Proceedings. 1999 IEEE/IEEJ/JSAI International Conference on

Conference_Location

Tokyo

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4975-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ITSC.1999.821122

Filename

821122