Mazda to Participate in ITS Trials on Public Roads in Hiroshima.Tokyo, Japan, June 8, 2007 - (JCN JCN Japan Corporate News JCN Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience JCN Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing JCN Journal of Christian Nursing JCN Job Control Number JCN Journal of Child Neurology JCN joint communications network (US DoD) Newswire) - To promote improved road safety, Mazda Motor Corporation has announced its intention to take part in public road trials in the Hiroshima area to help validate a new Intelligent Transport System (ITS). The road trials are due to commence in fall 2007. Intelligent Transport Systems use the latest in high-tech telecommunications to create an information network encompassing people, roads and vehicles. The objective of this new traffic system is to work toward solutions for transport problems such as road accidents, congestion The condition of a network when there is not enough bandwidth to support the current traffic load. congestion - When the offered load of a data communication path exceeds the capacity. and damage to the environment. Mazda's role in these validation trials will be to develop an in-car navigation system A GPS-based electronic system in a car or truck that provides a real time map of the vehicle's current location as well as step-by-step directions to a programmed destination. See GPS and vehicle tracking. that supports the ITS. Mazda will also supply several dozen test vehicles from which data will be collected and analyzed. Additionally, it is developing a safe driving support system - an arrangement of cameras and sensors placed along roads that will transmit information to drivers - to be compatible with the ITS infrastructure. Mazda will take part in the public road tests as part of a consortium of local government, academia and industry in the Hiroshima area that was formed during last year's Hiroshima Conference on ITS Validation on Public Roads [Chair: Prof. Akimasa Fujiwara, Hiroshima University Hiroshima University (広島大学 Hiroshima Daigaku Graduate School for International Development and Cooperation (IDEC IDEC Instituto Brasileiro de Defesa do Consumidor (Portugese: Brazilian Consumer Protection Agency) IDEC Information Design & End-User Computing IDEC Interior Design Educators Council, Inc. )]. In addition to promoting discussion on trials of the latest ITS technologies in the 2007-2008 period, the conference also covered activities to encourage the spread of ITS systems throughout Japan. The Hiroshima area has many road environments that will enable a wide range of test conditions for the verification trials, for example: - The numerous bridges over the many rivers in the Hiroshima area include arched bridges, which have dangerous blind summits. - Roads that accommodate both trams and motor vehicles, which have complicated traffic dynamics. - Lowlands and mountain regions are situated close together, which can create unexpected variations in weather and road surface conditions. The equipment to be tested includes: 1. A system to identify the extent of road congestion. 2. A warning system to prevent speeding. 3. A system to prevent rear-end collisions
A rear-end collision (often called simply rear-end) is a traffic accident where a vehicle (usually an automobile or a truck) impacts the vehicle in front of it, so called because at traffic signals. 4. A head-on collision A head-on collision is one where the front ends of two ships, trains, planes or vehicles hit each other, as opposed to a side-collision or rear-end collision. Rail transport With rail, a head-on collision often implies a collision on a single line railway. prevention support system. 5. A right-turn collision prevention support system (identifies approaching trams, oncoming on·com·ing adj. Coming nearer; approaching: an oncoming storm. n. An approach; an advance. traffic and pedestrians crossing the street). 6. An in-transit information system. The safe driving support system technology that will be trialed collates information from the ITS infrastructure and from vehicles (vehicle condition, driver operation) to monitor local traffic flows and individual driver responses. It then uses this information to identify potentially dangerous situations and judge whether a warning or an alarm should be triggered. This marks a large step forward in terms of functionality compared to previous ITS systems that merely provided information to drivers. Mazda aims to use the trials to establish usable ITS technologies which can be introduced in the near future to reduce the number of traffic accidents and lessen the impact of transportation on the environment. About Mazda Motor Corporation Mazda Motor Corporation (TSE See Tokyo Stock Exchange. TSE 1. See Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE). 2. See Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE). : 7261) started manufacturing tools in 1929 and soon branched out into production of trucks for commercial use. In the early 1960s, Mazda launched its first passenger car models and began developing rotary engines rotary engine, internal-combustion engine whose cycle is similar to that of a piston engine, but which produces rotary motion directly without any conversion from reciprocating motion. . Still headquartered in Hiroshima in western Japan, Mazda today ranks as one of Japan's leading automakers, and exports cars to the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and Europe for over 30 years. Overseas sales account for more than half of total turnover. Mazda has two main production sites in Japan and 19 overseas facilities. Overseas sites include joint ventures based in the United States, and in Thailand with Ford Motor Company, Mazda's largest shareholder. Source: Mazda Motor Corporation Contact: Mazda Motor Corporation Corporate Comnmunications Department Tel: +81-3-3508-5056 Japan Corporate News Network. All rights reserved. |
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