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- From: mjvande@pbhye.PacBell.COM (Mike Vandeman)
- Subject: Re: IVHS Defined
- Reply-To: mjvande@PacBell.COM (Mike Vandeman)
- Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, CA
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 21:30:12 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.213012.7871@pbhye.PacBell.COM>
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- > Advanced Traffic Management Systems (ATMS)
- > Here, information about traffic flow is coordinated
- > between travelers, signal controls, and central controls
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- Won't help, when congestion is everywhere, such as now.
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- > Advanced Traveler Information Systems (ATIS)
- > Stuff like ETAK and NavTek products, GPS/map matching and
- > dead reckoning systems, commercial fleet management, etc.
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- Not much help, beyond the current maps.
-
- >** Advanced Public Transit Systems
- > Computer controlled scheduling and intermodal coordination;
- > Everyone's favorite: how to get from my block to the bus stop
- > if I am a frail senior going out for chores
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- This is where the value is, but it has nothing to do with highways.
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- > Advanced Vehicle Control Systems
- > This is what everyone jumps to when they here IVHS, but in
- > fact it is perhaps the furthest away
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- And impossible, to boot.
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- >There is a lot of IVHS technology well beyond the "vaporware" stage,
- >particularily in Europe and Japan, where the capacity constraints on their
- >infrastructure are perhaps more accute than ours. Several programs are
- >under way in LA and Florida. Also, UC Berkeley and CalTrans are perhaps the most
- >progressive institutes in this country with respect to IVHS development.
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- Read: most unprincipled & money-driven.
-
- >To some extent I am afraid that IVHS is in fact an attempt by the automotive,
- >highway, and aerospace industrial complex to keep us addicted to cars.
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- That's the point, & why we should boycott this, as we did Star Wars.
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- >In short, we are stuck with the car for a few more decades. Since computer
- >and communications technology have come so far, perhaps it can help us
- >live with cars and highways in a more effective manner.
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- Better to apply that effort to transit, bikes, etc., which will be around
- a lot longer & do more good, than the car.
-