Traffic Solutions for the

Future

Approach
Traffic related applications today
and tomorrow
from "realistic" to "futuristic"

Along timeline
requiring subsequent developments
explained in different levels of detail

PPP
The Parking Place Problem

The Problem The Idea

Cities are saturated with
cars looking for a
parking place
In the EU the are 454
cars per 1000
inhabitants*
Pollution in cities is
increasing
People spending millions
of hours looking for
parking places

Guiding users to
free parking
places
within the
shortest time
having
considered their
special wishes

* EU eurostat Jahrbuch 2001, Page 42, Overview 1998

Requirement Definition

24 hours service/
availability

98 % availability for the

system within a year

Modular system
Allweather operability
Car sends

its position
information about its
size

Easy to use
Cheap
Useable in all cars, no
matter where the car is
(tunnels, parkhouses ...)
Maintenance friendly
Priority selection: parking
place in a parkhouse or
on the street

The Concept
?
! DATABASE
Position
Where is
a parking
place ?

Request

PARKING

PP-Service Center
PARKING POSITION

The Concept
DATABASE

Position
PARKING
PP-Service Center

Technical Overview
+ Ground Stations

SERVICE CENTER
Databas
e

CAR
Satellite
Navigation
Receiver

Movement
Sensor
Guidance
System

GSM/CDMA
Receiver/
Transmitter

NextBus: A Superb Customer

Service
The Problem
Buses in San Francisco have difficulty keeping
to 20 minute schedule during rush hours
Posted schedule becomes meaningless

The Solution
Bus riders carrying Internet-enabled cell
phone or PDA helps:
Find estimated arrival time at each stop, digitally in real time
Soon location-based advertisements will pop upyou have
time to get a cup of coffee before the bus arrivesStarbucks
is 200 feet to the right

NextBus (cont.)
The Results
Passengers in San Francisco are happy
with the system
Worries about missing the bus are
diminished
May discover they have time for a cup of
coffee before the bus arrives

Bus company can:

Schedule better
Arrange for extra buses when needed
Improve operations

Exhibit 8.1
NextBus Operational Model

 Established in 1995 as a subsidiary of GM

Current subscriber base over 1M
OnStar
Includes navigation,
location-sensitive
emergency service
Alert nearest emergency service provider

Also: e-mail, surf the Internet and establish

links to the home or office computer,
concierge services, etc.

Visions
System allows prereservation and
guarantees a parking place
Car is going to a parking place on
demand
(augmentation to driving on
demand)

City Navigation incl. In-doors

City Navigation incl. In-doors

SATELLITE

USER
Instruction

Searched Object/Subject GNSS Signal

USERINTERFACE

SATELLITE
RECEIVER

Data Bus

CONTROLLER
Searched Object

User Position

Direction Request

DATABASE
1

Guidance System for Visually

Impaired

Flexible Fleet Managment for

Public Traffic

A
A

Intelligent Guidance
40
km/h

50 km/h

60 km/h

67
km/h