Expediting Vehicle Infrastructure Integration (EVII): Where the Rubber Meets (and Talks to) the Road

摘要

This research effort between Caltrans, California PATH and DaimlerChrysler RTNA that demonstrated two potential VII services, one in traffic data probes and another with safety, using real cars and on Caltrans roadways. It presages an operational test and a deployment, and it lays the groundwork for technical and institutional know-how that will be leveraged onto the much larger VII California effort. As such, this project explores and resolves key engineering issues associated with the point deployment of these services in a realistic setting, California roadways and the first-ever private vehicle (owned by an automobile manufacturer's laboratory, DaimlerChrysler Research Technology North America) that 'talked' to the roadside, with the roadside backhaul interfacing into an existing Caltrans database and archival application, the Performance Measurement System. In the end, the project demonstrated that Caltrans could do VII and create VII champions, within and outside of Caltrans.