Systems Studies of Automated Highway Systems. Appendix I: Conceptual Automated Highway System Designs

摘要

The concern of the Automated Highway Systems (AHS) studies is the analysis and evaluation of candidate system concepts to determine their practicality for deployment in the 1990 to 2000 time frame. The purpose of this report is to narrow the scope of the Automated Highway Systems analyses to those concepts, applications, and strategies which clearly merit a detailed investigation. The methodology used in defining the AHS analyses requirements attempts to achieve a balance between investigating as broad a spectrum as possible of real world concepts and issues while simultaneously constraining the analysis effort to a practical level. This report, then, documents the results of a review and selection process which establishes the candidate AHS concepts to be investigated, the scenarios within which they will be evaluated, the evolutionary implementation strategies to be analyzed, and the measures and parameters by which the most promising concepts and implementation plans will be identified.