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02-19-2009, 10:06 AM
http://www.cleanmpg.com/photos/data/2/Japanese_Flag_30x22.jpg Japan’s 2010 intelligent transport systems (ITS) verification testing and public demonstration. (cleanmpg.com/forums/showthread.php?p=188994)
http://www.cleanmpg.com/photos/data/501/Honda_ITS-Safety_Vehicles.jpgWayne Gerdes – CleanMPG (cleanmpg.com) – Feb. 19, 2009
Honda Odyssey and Forza Bike setup for advanced safety testing in Tokyo.
Honda and Toyota each announced that they will participate in the Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) - Safety 2010 public demonstration (sponsored by the ITS Promotion Council) held on February 25 to 28, 2009 in Tokyo. Honda and Toyota will demonstrate their latest Advanced Safety Vehicles, including automobiles, motorcycles, and electric carts, equipped with active safety driving support features that utilize “information technologies.”
Vehicle-infrastructure cooperative systems are intended to reduce the number of traffic accidents by exchanging information between vehicles and roadside communications infrastructure, and among vehicles. As part of "ITS-Safety 2010", which aims to achieve the practical application of such systems by the end of March 2011,
The systems to be demonstrated include those designed to prevent collisions during turns, to prevent the running of red lights, to warn of approaching emergency vehicles and to provide information on obstacles ahead.
Honda’s Advanced Safety Vehicle research model, based on an Odyssey minivan for the Japanese market, represents the next stage in the development of its vehicle-to-infrastructure driving support systems, including DSSS, developed principally by the Universal Traffic Management Society of Japan; Smartway, promoted by the Road Bureau of the Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT); and ASV, promoted by the Road Transport Bureau of MLIT.
The Forza-based research motorcycle used in the same project represents a further evolution of the vehicle-to-vehicle communications system developed from the previous model’s preventive safety technologies to make motorcycles more noticeable to other motorists. Honda will continue R&D directed at the practical implementation of these safety technologies.
Since January 2009, Honda has been participating in ITS-Safety 2010, a large-scale verification testing project for DSSS, Smartway, and ASV in Tokyo’s waterfront district and surrounding freeways.
Honda’s ITS Primary Safety System
Cross-Traffic-Turning and Oncoming Vehicle Collision Avoidance System assists in preventing collisions between vehicles turning across traffic and oncoming vehicles by providing vehicles turning at signal-controlled intersections with positional information for difficult-to-spot oncoming vehicles.
Desired effect -- Reduces incidence of collisions between turning vehicles and oncoming vehicles (preventing accidents caused by perceptual error or miscalculation; compensating for errors in judging the speed and distance of motorcycles and facilitating awareness of the presence of motorcycles).
Inside-Lane-Turning Vehicle Collision Avoidance System assists in preventing collisions between motorcycles passing on the inside and vehicles turning at signal-controlled intersections by providing positional information on difficult-to-spot vehicles approaching from the rear.
Desired effect -- Reduces incidence of collisions with motorcycles passing on the inside during turns (preventing accidents by providing supplementary information on vehicles in blind spots).
http://www.cleanmpg.com/photos/data/501/Honda_ITS-Safety_Vehicles.jpgWayne Gerdes – CleanMPG (cleanmpg.com) – Feb. 19, 2009
Honda Odyssey and Forza Bike setup for advanced safety testing in Tokyo.
Honda and Toyota each announced that they will participate in the Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) - Safety 2010 public demonstration (sponsored by the ITS Promotion Council) held on February 25 to 28, 2009 in Tokyo. Honda and Toyota will demonstrate their latest Advanced Safety Vehicles, including automobiles, motorcycles, and electric carts, equipped with active safety driving support features that utilize “information technologies.”
Vehicle-infrastructure cooperative systems are intended to reduce the number of traffic accidents by exchanging information between vehicles and roadside communications infrastructure, and among vehicles. As part of "ITS-Safety 2010", which aims to achieve the practical application of such systems by the end of March 2011,
The systems to be demonstrated include those designed to prevent collisions during turns, to prevent the running of red lights, to warn of approaching emergency vehicles and to provide information on obstacles ahead.
Honda’s Advanced Safety Vehicle research model, based on an Odyssey minivan for the Japanese market, represents the next stage in the development of its vehicle-to-infrastructure driving support systems, including DSSS, developed principally by the Universal Traffic Management Society of Japan; Smartway, promoted by the Road Bureau of the Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT); and ASV, promoted by the Road Transport Bureau of MLIT.
The Forza-based research motorcycle used in the same project represents a further evolution of the vehicle-to-vehicle communications system developed from the previous model’s preventive safety technologies to make motorcycles more noticeable to other motorists. Honda will continue R&D directed at the practical implementation of these safety technologies.
Since January 2009, Honda has been participating in ITS-Safety 2010, a large-scale verification testing project for DSSS, Smartway, and ASV in Tokyo’s waterfront district and surrounding freeways.
Honda’s ITS Primary Safety System
Cross-Traffic-Turning and Oncoming Vehicle Collision Avoidance System assists in preventing collisions between vehicles turning across traffic and oncoming vehicles by providing vehicles turning at signal-controlled intersections with positional information for difficult-to-spot oncoming vehicles.
Desired effect -- Reduces incidence of collisions between turning vehicles and oncoming vehicles (preventing accidents caused by perceptual error or miscalculation; compensating for errors in judging the speed and distance of motorcycles and facilitating awareness of the presence of motorcycles).
Inside-Lane-Turning Vehicle Collision Avoidance System assists in preventing collisions between motorcycles passing on the inside and vehicles turning at signal-controlled intersections by providing positional information on difficult-to-spot vehicles approaching from the rear.
Desired effect -- Reduces incidence of collisions with motorcycles passing on the inside during turns (preventing accidents by providing supplementary information on vehicles in blind spots).