Traffic control centers located all over Japan mainly provide traffic signal control, traffic information collection, and traffic information dissemination funktions. Through originally intended to manage traffic under normal conditions, these functions can be utilized when a large-scale disaster occurs just like the Great Hanshin Earthquake in January 1995. This paper describes funktions the existing traffic control system provides to be ready for a large-scale disaster. Also it contains several plans for countermeasures against a disaster with respect to system implementation for actualizing the Universal Traffic Management Systems (UTMSD), one of the ITS related programs in Japan, and other new concepts specifically.
Function of traffic control systems in major disasters
Funktion von Verkehrssteuerungssystemen bei großen Katastrophen
1995
6 Seiten, 3 Bilder
Conference paper
English
Function of Traffic Control Systems in Major Disasters
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