The design of an Experimental Route Guidance System (ERGS) is reported in four volumes. ERGS is an electronic system intended to provide an optimum solution to the problem of directing drivers from any origin to any destination (intersection) within the continental United States. It also provides a potential for assigning traffic to the road network to the advantage of both the drivers and efficient operation of the network. The system design makes use of electronic equipment both in the participating vehicles and at intersections which are to supply routing instructions. The system is destination oriented. The driver enters a code word representing his intended destination into the vehicle equipment. Then, as the vehicle approaches each instrumental intersection, the destination code is transmitted to the roadside where it is decoded according to a stored program and a routing instruction is transmitted back to the vehicle. Volume 1 describes the system design and its operation. (Author)
A Design for Experimental Route Guidance System (Ergs). Volume I. System Description
1968
92 pages
Report
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English
Transportation Safety , Guidance Systems , Vehicular traffic control , Command guidance , Automatic control , Design , Routing , Data links , Coders , Decoders , Logic design , Computer programming , Electronic display systems , Experimental route guidance systems , ERGS(Experimental Route Guidance Systems)
Experimental route guidance system
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