17th ITS World CongressITS JapanITS AmericaERTICO · 2010 · 21 citations · 0 references
EngineeringAutomotive EngineeringSystems EngineeringAutomationAutonomous VehiclesTransportationAutomotive TechnologyIntelligent Transportation SystemsTraffic EngineeringVehicle ControlVehicle Control SystemsVehicle EmissionsCarbon EconomyHeavy-duty Vehicle Emissions ControlPlatooningSystem ConfigurationTransportation Infrastructure SensingVehicle Platooning
In May 2007, Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) issued a report titled “Next-Generation Vehicle and Fuel Initiative.” In the report, METI laid out the idea of Japan pursuing efforts to become the world’s most environmentally-friendly motorized society as one measure of the initiative, and proposed building a low carbon emission economy based on intelligent transport systems (ITS). JARI and 14 organizations including universities, private sectors and national institutes in collaborative relationship have been developing advanced sensing technologies and vehicle control technologies in order to build a feasible automated platoon system based on heavy duty trucks. In this paper, the authors report on the concept, system configuration, and experimental result on the new expressway under construction.