Feasibility of advanced vehicle control systems (AVCS) for transit buses

Robert Larsen

doi:10.1117/12.265337

23 January 1997 Feasibility of advanced vehicle control systems (AVCS) for transit buses

Robert Larsen

Proceedings Volume 2903, Mobile Robots XI and Automated Vehicle Control Systems; (1997) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.265337
Event: Photonics East '96, 1996, Boston, MA, United States

Abstract

In the course of developing automated vehicle-roadway systems, opportunities to deploy vehicle control systems art intermediate stages of development may emerge. Some of these systems may provide a significant efficiency or safety enhancement to existing operations with manually driven vehicles. Under certain circumstances, transit buses provide an ideal testbed for such systems. The work presented here represents a feasibility study for the application of advanced vehicle control systems (AVCS) to transit bus operations. The paper explores past and present research relevant to automatic control for buses and recommends specific operations which could be better performed by AVCS- assisted or controlled vehicles. A survey of feasible technologies for the guidance and control of the buses is also presented.

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Robert Larsen "Feasibility of advanced vehicle control systems (AVCS) for transit buses", Proc. SPIE 2903, Mobile Robots XI and Automated Vehicle Control Systems, (23 January 1997); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.265337

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