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Current Work Areas are listed here, with further details below. Vision notes for each of these areas have been developed to include a vision for the future, the present situation, issues that need to be addressed and actions required, and Progress Reports are now available. The papers for these areas are at different levels of development.
1. Passenger Transport Services
Content:
Passenger Transport systems and operation including tools for planning and monitoring; integration of modes to unified system; safety and security; electronic payment systems; new services include Demand Responsive Transport, novel car ownership & use, non-motorised modes.
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2a. Safety: Emergency Service Systems
Content:
Mayday emergency call services- types of call (emergency, breakdown, 'Good Samaritan'); information requirements (vehicle id, no. of persons, hazardous material, vehicle status); Location reference (accurate, unambiguous, use of cell phones and GPS); communications.
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2b. Safety: Human Machine Interface
Content:
Effective and safe communication in a complex ITS environment; Society's needs and user requirements; public transport information; in-vehicle ergonomics and distraction; driver assistance systems; driver behaviour & HMI design.
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2c. Safety: Enforcement
Content:
Levels and character of ITS enforcement to make the behavioural changes necessary to reduce accidents.
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3. Multiple Monitoring of Road Traffic
Content:
Integrated approach to road, weather, air quality, traffic and physical data collection, fusion and application; user service requirements e.g. traffic management, traveller information, electronic payment.
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4. Personal Travel Services
Content:
Coherent approach to personal travel information and services, trip end activities and tourism; interoperability; access to information; search engines, information delivery; legal aspects of data access, storage and use.
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5. Long Term Effects of ITS on Transport Demand and Land Use Planning
Content:
Home and workplace relocation as a result of ITS opportunities in a changing transport environment.
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5a. Effects of B2C e-commerce on Transport Demand and Supply
Content:
Effects on goods distribution, transport (new vehicles, new containers), travel, shopping and personal activity patterns, delivery models, interfaces for ordering, tracking and tracing goods.
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6. Vehicles and Highway ITS Infrastructure
Content:
In-vehicle technology and infrastructure based technology developed in parallel and integrated for benefits to both; Advanced driver assistance, active safety, lateral control, speed enforcement/adaptation, communication devices.
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6a. Lateral Control in Automated Highway Systems
Content:
Lane Departure Warning and Lane Keeping systems and their interaction with driver monitoring and other vehicle and highway systems.
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6b. Radio Navigation
Content:
Technology and accuracy requirements for navigation and positioning in highway and transport systems.
- Synopsis
- Progress Report - Oct 2002
- Radio Navigation and SPAIDS - Oct 2002
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8. Freight Transport Services and ITS
Content:
Freight systems to give complete package solutions; multi-modal; real-time traffic, tracking and tracing; intermodal load and mode matching; message and document standards; hardware and vehicles.
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9. Training & Education for ITS
Content:
Requirements to develop the knowledge and expertise needed for the development and implementation of Intelligent Transport Systems across Europe.
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