Title :
The potential application of GPS for distance controlled car following
Author :
McDonald, Mike ; Wu, Jianping ; Li, Yanying ; Guo, Jingjun
Author_Institution :
Southampton Univ., UK
Abstract :
Global Positioning Systems (GPS) can measure locations and changes in locations of objects on the earth´s surface with increasing accuracy. Researchers in Southampton University and Tsinghua University (China), have been jointly investigating the potential applications of GPS for traffic management and control with support from the Royal Society and the Natural Science Foundation Committee (NSFC), China since 2000. This paper reports the results of using GPS for distance controlled car following
Keywords :
Global Positioning System; radio tracking; traffic control; traffic engineering computing; GPS; Global Positioning Systems; distance controlled car following; driver assistance systems; traffic; traffic engineering; traffic management;
Conference_Titel :
Road Transport Information and Control, 2002. Eleventh International Conference on (Conf. Publ. No. 486)
Conference_Location :
London
Print_ISBN :
0-85296-746-2
DOI :
10.1049/cp:20020199
