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Title:

Internet Technology-Based Road Information Systems

Abstract:

The Hokkaido Development Bureau is currently promoting ITS technology R&D intended for cold climates called "ITS/Win Research Program". The Program aims to improve the safety and efficiency of winter transport, and focuses especially on Internet technology. The ITS/Win is featured by active use of the Internet and by public/private joint research projects initiated in December 1996, from open application. In this paper, we report the results of a road information provision experiment using the Internet technology that was made in Hokkaido, including the Greater Sapporo WHITE-NET Experimental Project and the Mountain Pass Image Transmission Experiment. We also propose a method to use XML technology: Road Web Markup Language (RWML) in the road information field and consider the impact of Internet technology on ITS.

Source(s):

Hokkaido Development Bureau, Civil Engineering Research Institute (Japan)

Date: 1998

Author:

Kajiya, Ishimoto, Sato

Keywords:


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