DocumentCode :
2219925
Title :
The vanadium redox battery - an energy reservoir for stand-alone ITS applications along motor and expressways
Author :
Schreiber, Martha ; Whitehead, Adam H. ; Harrer, Martin ; Moser, René
Author_Institution :
Funktionswerkstoffe Forschungs und Entwicklungs GmbH, Eisenstadt, Austria
fYear :
2005
fDate :
13-15 Sept. 2005
Firstpage :
391
Lastpage :
395
Abstract :
This paper presents a new technology/system to supply stand-alone ITS applications along motor- and expressways with electrical energy. The constantly increasing requirement for general mobility, while at the same time ensuring personal safety, requires a broad-based information system, including also the entire network of traffic routes. Focusing on traffic routes, traffic management and information systems are under consideration all over Europe to offer information to the road user. In Austria the national motor- and expressway operator, ASFINAG, is currently implementing a new national-wide traffic management and information system for the motor- and expressway network. One main requirement of the peripheral components of this system (e.g. variable message signs) is a reliable power supply. Costly investments would be necessary to ensure a grid-bound provision of electricity for all components which are implemented on the entire high level road network, about 2,000 km. Therefore ASFINAG together with partners initiated the following R&D project to develop an alternative to grid-bound provision of electricity, state-of-the-art of diesel generators and lead-acid batteries which requires intensive maintenance.
Keywords :
automated highways; power supplies to apparatus; road traffic; secondary cells; traffic information systems; vanadium; broad-based information system; electrical energy; energy reservoir; expressways; motorways; stand-alone ITS applications; traffic information system; traffic management; traffic routes; vanadium redox battery; Batteries; Europe; Information management; Load management; Management information systems; Power system reliability; Reservoirs; Roads; Safety; Telecommunication traffic;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2005. Proceedings. 2005 IEEE
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9215-9
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/ITSC.2005.1520176
Filename :
1520176
Link To Document :
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