Automated Driving - the future of the car has started

EU News 47/2014

31 January 2014

From 15-18 October Mr. Juhani Jaaskelainen and Mr. Wolfgang Hoefs (CONNECT) represented the EU at the "Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS)" World Congress held in Tokyo/Japan. Since 2010 there is also trilateral cooperation between the EU/DG CNECT, US/DoT (Department of Transport) and Japan/MLIT (Ministry Land, Infrastructure and Transport), on automation in road transport, probe data, evaluation tools and methods and, most importantly, also on standards.

Guest speaker of the 8 November EU S&T Counsellors' Meeting was Mr. Yasuhiro Okumura, Director of Intelligent Transport System Policy and Program Office, Road Bureau, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism. The title of his presentation was: "Automated Driving - the future of the car has started". Automated driving technology in Japan may be deployed on expressways as soon as 2015. Japan has been a leading country in implementing ITS, on car navigation, traffic information provision, automatic toll collection and communication allowing route guidance, safety driving support etc. Currently, Japan develops a wide area traffic information, advanced safety vehicles and auto-pilot system.

The meeting was followed by a study tour of the EU S&T Counsellors in Tokyo, Associated Countries and S&T Diplomatic Community to the Traffic Control Center of the Tokyo Metropolitan Expressway which is used by 1.15 million vehicles a day.

Visit in the Traffic Control Center of the Tokyo Metropolitan Expressway / 首都高速道路交通管制センターへの視察 URL

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