- Today deployed ITS services
- ITS services further spreading in and after 2007
- More various ITS services
- The fundamental services will enable various ITS services
- State-of-the-art ITS service to start in autumn 2007
- Providing various services with a single ITS on-board unit
- A single ITS on-board unit to provide various services
- Information provision services along roadways
- Information connection services at roadside rest areas
- Public parking lot payment services
- Deployment of the platform for next-generation road services
- Next-generation road service system consisting of roadside units, ITS on-board units, and road-vehicle communication
- A common platform for deploying various private services
- Various services provided by roadside units to ITS on-board units
- Providing a varity of services with a single ITS on-board unit
- State-of-the-art ITS services will start in 2007 in Japan
- Smartway 2007 Deployment of the world's safest roads on an experimental basis
- Demonstrated in "Demo 2006"
- Smartway open trial to experience various services through a single ITS on-board unit
- To reduce traffic accident fatalities to less than 5,000
- Implementing systems to support safe driving by infrastructure-vehicle cooperation
- Dramatic reduction of traffic accidents
- AHS effective for about 80% of accidents
- Reducing traffic accidents with AHS
- AHS to free drivers from danger
- AHS provide real-time information necessary for safe driving by road-vehicle cooperation
- Increasing expectations for advanced road-vehicle cooperation systems
- Deploying road-vehicle cooperation systems for AHS
- Aiming to deploy an advanced road-vehicle cooperation systems
- Safety services for many people, at low cost, and elimination of fatal accidents
- Supporting elderly drivers who will double in number
- ASV systems to enhance the safety of drivers
- Steady deployment of ASV in the last 15 years (three phases)
- Developing technologies for three systems
- ASV Project in the fourth phase
- Assisting safe driving by providing appropriate information during disasters
- Providing comprehensive information about all highways in Japan through road traffic information provision system
- Ensuring safety by forewarning of traffic regulations
- A-mail System Automatic provision of traffic restriction information in real time
- Provision of information on road surface conditions for safety and safe driving
- Provision of information on upcoming road sections with poor visibility to drivers in tunnels - "Demo 2006"
- Joint information provision by residents and road managers for safety and safe driving on winter highways
- Advanced road management to improve safety and safe driving
- The rockfall warning system quickly detecting rocks on the road and closing the road appropriately
- The tunnel deformation warning system quickly detecting damage to tunnels
- Advanced snow removal system for efficient snow removal using snowcleaning vehicles installed with GPS
- Efficient and effective application of anti-freezing agent using the road-surface frost prediction system
- Probe information to enable effective measures to be provided
- Probe cars effectively monitor traffic flow
- Probe informatiion enable precise analyses
- Utilized to enable substantial road administration services to be provided
- Probe data to understand the actual effects of projects
- On-spot measures to increase effects
- Road IR Site providing information on road administration
- Probe persons to monitor the movements of people
- Assisting safe driving with easy-to-drive maps
- Japan's first service started in Kyushu in March 2006
- Study Group on Easy-to-Drive Road Maps formed in July 2006
- Reducing accidents by installing drive recorders
- Drive recorders mounted on taxis effectively reduced accidents
- Aiming to attain the target of the Kyoto Protocol
- Japan's target in the Kyoto Protocol is to reduce CO2 emissions by 6%
- Reduce CO2 emissions from vehicles is the key
- Reduce CO2 emissions by easing congestion
- Reduce CO2 emissions by increasing the use of expressways
- Spreading ETC to improve the environment
- ETC utilization rate of 50% reduces CO2 emissions by 130 thousand tons
- Roadside noise reduced by ETC nighttime discount field trial
- Environment Road Pricing increased heavy vehicles taking different routes
- Deploying Smart Interchanges to increase the utilization rate of expressways
- Improving the convenience of using expressways and promoting the regional economy
- Full-scale deployment of Smart Interchanges
- The Kameyama PA Smart Interchange mitigates congestion on nearby road sections and improves physical distribution
- Chojahara SA Smart IC increases the use of expressway
- Sagae SA Smart Interchange enables ambulances to use the expressway to carry patients to modern medical facilities
- Sue PA Smart Interchange also serves as an emergency exit from the expressway
- Reduce CO2 emissions
- Constructing efficient and environment-friendly distribution system
- Advanced distribution and efficient collection of freight for improved roadside environment
- Promoting the use of buses with bus location system
- Nationwide deployment of highway bus location system started
- Q-Bus Search expanded to major highway bus routes in Kyushu
- Niigata Bus-i providing information of highway buses in and outside the prefecture
- Okayama Bus Information Service wanted by 80% of users
- Toyama Bus i expanded to 124 routes in 18 regions
- Smart Mobility Kochi providing transit information at 1,500 points
- Nakamura Machi Bus anchored as a demand bus for local residents
- Hodatsushimizu-cho is needed by 64% of the elderly and the service area will be expanded
- Constructing a ubiquitous environment with free mobility assistance
- Free mobility assistance project to assist anyone, anytime, anywhere
- Proving tests conducted in many parts of Japan
- Assisting mobility of tourists with Machi Meguri Navi
- Proving tests in 25 regions in Japan
- Car navigation systems have evolved and provide more services
- Exceeding 25 million units by the end of 2006
- Huge evolution from the car navigation function
- Advanced car navigation function
- Improved safe driving assistance
- Substantial entertainment services
- VICS has been installed in over 15 million vehicles in total, and the number is still increasing
- Over 70% of all car navigation system shipped came with built-in VICS units in the last five years
- Providing the latest road traffic information to drivers
- Improving the accuracy of VICS information by using 5.8 GHz DSRC
- ETC utilization ratio exceeded 60% and the technologies will be increasingly used
- Used by over 4.8 million vehicles a day, utilization rate to 75% by spring 2007
- 87.5% of users mentioned "ETC is comfortable and convenient"
- ETC solved congestion near toll gates
- Various toll discount services deployed to stimulate expressway usage
- Principal measures for promoting ETC
- Use of ETC-related technologies for various purposes requested by the Japan Federation of Economic Organizations
- Public parking lot payment services
- Field trial of Parking lot ETC using existing ETC on-board units
- Demonstration of cashless payment services by ITS on-boad units in "Demo 2006"
- Information connection services at roadside rest areas
- Proving tests at various sites using 5.8 GHz DSRC
- "Town Car Life Navi" to improve the traffic environment by providing appropriate information
- Provision of information on road work
- Smooth traffic by road work management
- Promotion of ITS as a national project
- Joint promotion by industry / academia / government
- ITS as a national project
- Smartway Project Advisory Committee serving as the nucleus
- Working groups of the Smartway Project Advisory Committee conducting discussions
- Enhancing government-private sector collaboration to promote Smartway
- Industry-academia-government collaboration
- Final report of government-private joint researches published
- Results of government-private joint researches completed in March 2006
- Various next-generation road services to be provided by single ITS on-board unit with 5.8 GHz DSRC
- Promoting ITS with communities and residents
- Jointly promoted by industry, academia and government in the region
- Acceleration of ITS introduction by "Project for developing ITS-related facilities"
- Moving toward international standardization
- Actively participating in world conferences
- Interchange and cooperation for ITS promotion in the Asian and Pacific region
- ISO:International Organization for tandardization
- Japan's activities for ISO/TC204
- ITU : International Telecommunication Union
- ITU adopted the 5.8 GHz band DSRC as the first international radio communications standard for ITS
- System Architecture
- Time-tables for the development and deployment of ITS in Japan
- Detailed definition of user services
- The two features
- Measures taken for actualization of the two features
- ITS Websites in Japan
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