AUTOMATED

HIGHWAY
SYSTEM
 NAME – PRATHMESH SANJAY DESHPANDE
 COLLEGE –PD.VASANTDADA PATIL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY,BAVDHAN
 ROLL NO AND DIVISION –B14
 TOPIC – AUTOMATED HIGHWAY SYSTEM
 SUBJECT TEACHER- PROF. KADAM SIR
INTRODUCTION

Recent research in automated highways has clearly indicated that automated vehicle control technology offers
major improvements in the safety and efficiency of existing highways. With this in mind, Congress directed the
Secretary of Transportation to enhance and focus the nation's research into fully automated intelligent vehicle
highway systems. The Automated Highway System (AHS) program is a government-industry-academia
collaboration to apply automated control technology to the vehicle-highway system to greatly improve the safety,
mobility, and quality of highway travel. The efficiency of the automated vehicle-highway system is expected to
help conserve energy resources to make more efficient use of existing transportation facilities and to contribute to a
sustainable future transportation system. The deployment of AHS is intended to support community economic
development and land use planning goals and to be compatible with urban air quality goals. Wherever possible,
these improvements will be made using the existing highway infrastructure
AUTOMATED HIGHWAY SYSTEMS
The Automated Highway System (AHS) concept defines a new relationship between vehicles and the highway
infrastructure. AHS refers to a set of designated lanes on a limited access roadway where specially equipped
vehicles are operated under completely automatic control. AHS uses vehicle and highway control technologies
that shift driving functions from the driver/operator to the vehicle.
BENEFITS

The AHS will provide users with the following benefits:

• Safer travel.
• More efficient travel.
• More predictable trip times.
• Environmental benefits.
• Additional mobility to an increasingly aged population.
• Reduced insurance rates due to reduced numbers/severity of crashes.
SPECIFIC SAFETY GOALS

• Significantly reduced driver error by providing for increasing degrees of automated assistance, from partial
control in conventional lanes, up to full control of the vehicle while in AHS lanes
• Reduce travel time and stress of travel for commuters.
• Enhance personal mobility for the elderly or other drivers with special needs-in performing the driving task. •
Increase the comfort of traveling as a result of increased safety and less frustration resulting from the decrease in
congestion and unpredictable travel times.
• Reduce the strain of driving on crowded, high-speed highway
• Less frequent and lower severity crashes.
• No collisions in the absence of AHS malfunctions
BENEFITS TO SOCIETY
• Reduced highway congestion and increased safety and security.
• Reduced overall fossil fuel consumption and emissions.
• Support for response to national emergencies, both civil and national defence.
• Support for enhancing the nation's robustness and vitality with a sustainable transportation system.
• Transportation system that increases mobility of people and goods, which can potentially increase productivity,
enhance competitiveness, and result in economic growth
SAFETY FEATURES

 Intersection and signal warning 

Using information transmitted from the Driving Safety Support System (DSSS), drivers can receive audible and display
warnings when approaching some low-visibility intersections.

 School zone alerts

When the vehicle enters an elementary school zone and the system determines that a safety warning is appropriate, based on
real-time vehicle information (speed, acceleration, braking, etc.), it provides audible and display warnings to direct driver
attention. This feature is already available in the recently-released Nissan Skyline Crossover.
 Navigation-linked speed control
The system can slow the vehicle’s speed through engine braking, for instance, if it determines the car is traveling
too fast for the sharpness of a corner or is approaching a tollgate too quickly. This can also make driving more fuel
efficient. This feature is currently in use on the Nissan Eco series, a line of greener cars released in Japan in
April.TIMES

 Faster route searches

Using probe data (wireless) traffic information from individual vehicles sent to the Carwings Center, this system
supplies information for roads, such as waiting times at intersections and traffic signals and delivers it to other
vehicles in the area. Using this information for route calculation makes route searches more precise, moves traffic
faster, reduces traffic congestion and promotes greener driving.