ISBN: 0471938505 9780471938507

Category: Computers / Information Technology

Page count: 245

A new approach to traffic management is now essential - our roads are over-crowded, inefficient, environmentally damaging and dangerous to all who use them. Providing a key to cooperative driving, advances in information technology now offer a new range of solutions to the problem of traffic congestion. By allowing vehicles to communicate directly, road traffic informatics, or RTI, will help to control traffic flow. Information broadcast digitally or via roadside beacons will provide in-vehicle information which is current and specific to the needs of the individual driver. Set to become a vital issue in the future of transport engineering, this book provides a valuable guide to RTI. Features include an introduction to the fundamental concepts and terminology of RTI; an analysis of the assessment procedure - covering the components of a communication link, system characteristics and implementation; a detailed explanation of search techniques, or dynamic route guidance; information on radio messaging and radio data systems; and a comprehensive cost-benefit analysis. The authors' broad-based approach will appeal to a wide readership of transport engineers, IT engineers, engineers and students in communications, electronics and computer science, car manufacturers and traffic systems engineers.