The first section of this report addresses the issues of vehicle control during transition maneuvers in Intelligent Vehicle Highway Systems. Transition maneuvers include automatic lane change of vehicles and merging and splitting of platoons of vehicles in the automated highway system. The...

PeMS 4 is the latest of four task orders devoted to research, development, and maintenance of the PeMS system. PeMS collects, processes, stores, and makes available online data from the six Caltrans districts (D3, 4, 7, 8, 11, 12), which include the major urban areas in California. The data are...

This report describes possible objectives for a Field Operational Test (FOT), to be conducted following the completion of the National Automated Highway System Consortium (NAHSC) mission in 2002. At that time, it is anticipated that there will be one or more FOTs in which ordinary drivers will...

This paper extends an existing continuum multi-lane formulation for traffic flow, provides a discrete formulation for its numerical solution, and show initial results. The new formulation enables a natural treatment of boundary conditions such as merges, diverges, lane-drops and moving...

This paper describes the results of an assessment of benefits from an Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) architecture, based on the National ITS Architecture Development program. Benefits of the architecture include those typically attributed to systems engineering and integration. The...

PATH AVCSS researches have been traditionally oriented toward automatic vehicle design. Recently, the field of investigation has been extended from Automated Highway System (AHS) to assistance driving systems. One of the tools built at PATH for automatic system design and assessment is SmartAHS....

This report contains an evaluation of the sensing techniques and implementation issues of magnetic sensing as a position reference system. The field patterns of sample magnetic markers were first measured to illustrate the basic characteristics of such systems. Several sensing approaches were...

1 OVERVIEW Because travel time provides information over an extended freeway link, rather than at a single point, it is a key parameter for ATIS applications and it is a powerful tool for ATMS. Under PATH sponsorship, we have already developed a prototype travel time measurement system that...