Title: THE ROLE OF DRIVERS IN A SCENARIO OF INTELLIGENT TRANSPORT TELEMATICS
Abstract: Intelligent Transport Systems have been under development since more than 20 years now. Urban traffic light control systems have been migrated from fixed time control to traffic dependent and more responsive systems. Mainly interurban roads have been equipped with automatic traffic detection and systems for monitoring and environmental conditions, collecting information from many points of the roadway, processing them and initialising warnings and prescriptions on variable message signs along the roadways. In an environment of sophisticated technologies, complicated driving tasks and mentally heavily loaded drivers a challenging question has to be answered: Which will be the role of the driver in road traffic of the future? Or, on the other hand: Are road operators willing to take over vehicle control? Will vehicle technology and intelligence contribute to a saver and more efficient traffic flow? Are there migration paths as way out of legal deadlock conditions? Can transport policy point out a balance of interests of system suppliers, road operators and vehicle drivers? This report tries to give the author's view as a representative of the German road authorities on some possible scenarios of road traffic developments, but it keeps in mind users and industries and service providers interests. It shall not be attempted to freeze prevailing conditions but to point out migration paths towards Traffic 2015.
Publication Year: 2001
Publication Date: 2001-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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