I attended the Sixth International Conference on Road Traffic Monitoring and Control organized by The Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE) in London. England. I also visited the traffic control centers in Central and East London and saw a demonstration of AUTOGUIDE, an in-vehicle route guidance system. The AUTOGUIDE demonstration included a drive through Central London with the help of an on-board navigation and route guidance system. Useful information was obtained on the current status of the AUTOGUIDE and similar projects in Europe. Most of the forty-seven (47) papers presented at the conference were of high quality and contained new and innovative approaches to road traffic monitoring and control. Several pavers were of great interest to ongoing work at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory on the Intelligence Vehicle Highway Systems (IVHS) and Chemical Stockpile Emergency Preparedness Program (CSEPP) projects. The papers in the sessions on Urban Networks, Driver Information, and Imaging were of particular interest. In many instances, the material presented clearly indicated the advanced state of technology applications in traffic management in Europe (e.g., the Dutch Fog-Detection Experiments and the M25 Motorway control system). There were over a dozen exhibitors in the conference. Noteworthy among the exhibits were the TrafficMaster system, a weigh-in-motion system, and the ELTRACS system. The TrafficMaster system is a portable traffic information system which covers an area of approximately 35 miles radius from Central London.
Travel to London, England, to attend the sixth international conference on road traffic monitoring and control and to visit traffic control centers in Greater London area to assess their capabilities and operations. Foreign trip report, March 20, 1992--May 1, 1992
1992
10 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch