Seminar format: (1) The Belt Concept. (2)The principles of the ITS Station.
The day will be divided in two halves: First part is about the Belt Concept and the second part is about the ITS Stations with the main focus on the Roadside ITS station. The seminars will be held in the same room.
The Belt Concept
In the future it will be paramount that autonomous and automatic driven vehicles are able to determine their location in the lane – and that they are capable of sustained lane keeping. The Belt Concept suggest an added geometric feature to help cars maintain a safe lane positon while driving. The road might be divided into belts and sections, each with its own definition of form; carriageway, lane, bus lane, sidewalk, etc.
For the car to keep its lane, it needs to control the vehicle by comparing its trajectory with the predicted path, location, speed and direction. The car need to download detailed local map data (Belts) to build up the trajectory and will need to do on-the-fly “map matching” to locate itself in a safe way. Thus, the Belts must carry a geometry on its own – and at the same time have a relationship to the on-board more persistent geometry.
Learn more about the Belt Concept and how it is connected to the ordinary feature-rich road geometry.
ITS Stations with Roadside ITS station as a case
In the near future the ITS Stations will be the ICT backbone of the ITS services and applications. The ITS Stations will convey all types of services and messages between the ITS stations as well as external systems, roadside systems and in-vehicle systems. However, it is still difficult to see how the communication between the ITS Stations will be implemented and what kind of carrier that will be used in urban and rural areas.
Also, it is of great interest to learn more about the definition of the functional and technical requirements for the ITS stations and services. For many of the actors in the field, these definitions and standards are important for the development of new services and sensors types – and in the end, the opening of a new industry in Norway.
The seminar will use the Roadside ITS station as a case and focus on the interfaces between the Roadside ITS station and its connected ITS stations and external systems. However, the seminar will also cover issues relevant for all the four types of ITS stations, i.e. the Personal, the Vehicle, the Roadside and the Central ITS station.
Standardization
What is the state of the art for communication and interfaces between Roadside and Vehicle ITS stations? Will the Belt Road Concept be standardized and implemented in navigator system in cars?
How is Norway doing and how can we use our existing maps and communication technology to support building a new C-ITS industry?
The invited speakers have years of experience and have taken an active role in the development and use of standards based innovation to bring us to where we are now.
Please join us in a discussion on how we can capitalize on these new trends!
