Smartway further spreading in 2007 5Today deployed ITS services 6ITS services further spreading in and after 2007 8More various ITS services 10

The fundamental services will enable various ITS services 10State-of-the-art ITS service to start in autumn 2007 11

Providing various services with a single ITS on-board unit12A single ITS on-board unit to provide various services 12Information provision services along roadways12Information connection services at roadside rest areas13Public parking lot payment services 13

Deployment of the platform for next-generation road services 14Next-generation road service system consisting of roadside units, ITS on-board units, and road-vehicle communication14A common platform for deploying various private services 14Various services provided by roadside units to ITS on-board units15Providing a varity of services with a single ITS on-board unit 15

State-of-the-art ITS services will start in 2007 in Japan 16Smartway 2007 Deployment of the world's safest roads on an experimental basis 16

Demonstrated in "Demo 2006"18Smartway open trial to experience various services through a single ITS on-board unit18

Actualizing the world's safest roads 19To reduce traffic accident fatalities to less than 5,000 20

Implementing systems to support safe driving by infrastructure-vehicle cooperation20Dramatic reduction of traffic accidents 21AHS effective for about 80% of accidents 21

Reducing traffic accidents with AHS 22AHS to free drivers from danger 22AHS provide real-time information necessary for safe driving by road-vehicle cooperation 22Increasing expectations for advanced road-vehicle cooperation systems 23Deploying road-vehicle cooperation systems for AHS 24Aiming to deploy an advanced road-vehicle cooperation systems25Safety services for many people, at low cost, and elimination of fatal accidents 26Supporting elderly drivers who will double in number26

ASV systems to enhance the safety of drivers28Steady deployment of ASV in the last 15 years (three phases) 28Developing technologies for three systems28ASV Project in the fourth phase 29

Assisting safe driving by providing appropriate information during disasters30Providing comprehensive information about all highways in Japan through road traffic information provision system30Ensuring safety by forewarning of traffic regulations 31A-mail System Automatic provision of traffic restriction information in real time31Provision of information on road surface conditions for safety and safe driving32Providing of information on upcoming road sections with poor visibility to drivers in tunnels "Demo 2006" 32Joint information provision by residents and road managers for safety and safe driving on winter highways 33

Advanced road management to improve safety and safe driving34The rockfall warning system quickly detecting rocks on the road and closing the road appropriately34The tunnel deformation warning system quickly detecting damage to tunnels34Advanced snow removal system for efficient snow removal using snowcleaning vehicles installed with GPS 35Efficient and effective application of anti-freezing agent using the road-surface frost prediction system 35

Probe information to enable effective measures to be provided36Probe cars effectively monitor traffic flow36Probe informatiion enable precise analyses 36Utilized to enable substantial road administration services to be provided36Probe data to understand the actual effects of projects37On-spot measures to increase effects 37Road IR Site providing information on road administration 38Probe persons to monitor the movements of people 39

Assisting safe driving with easy-to-drive maps 40Japan's first service started in Kyushu in March 2006 40Study Group on Easy-to-Drive Road Maps formed in July 200641

Reducing accidents by installing drive recorders42Drive recorders mounted on taxis effectively reduced accidents 42

Affluent and environment-friendly society in progress 43Aiming to attain the target of the Kyoto Protocol 44

Japan's target in the Kyoto Protocol is to reduce CO2 emissions by 6%44Reduce CO2 emissions from vehicles is the key 44Reduce CO2 emissions by easing congestion 45Reduce CO2 emissions by increasing the use of expressways 45

Spreading ETC to improve the environment46ETC utilization rate of 50% reduces CO2 emissions by 130 thousand tons 46Roadside noise reduced by ETC nighttime discount field trial46Environment Road Pricing increased heavy vehicles taking different routes 47

Deploying Smart Interchanges to increase the utilization rate of expressways 48Improving the convenience of using expressways and promoting the regional economy48Full-scale deployment of Smart Interchanges49The Kameyama PA Smart Interchange mitigates congestion on nearby road sections and improves physical distribution50

Chojahara SA Smart IC increases the use of expressway 50Sagae SA Smart Interchange enables ambulances to use the expressway to carry patients to modern medical facilities 51Sue PA Smart Interchange also serves as an emergency exit from the expressway51

Reduce CO2 emissions52Constructing efficient and environment-friendly distribution system 52Advanced distribution and efficient collection of freight for improved roadside environment 53

Promoting the use of buses with bus location system 54Nationwide deployment of highway bus location system started 54Q-Bus Search expanded to major highway bus routes in Kyushu55Niigata Bus-i providing information of highway buses in and outside the prefecture55Okayama Bus Information Service wanted by 80% of users56Toyama Bus i expanded to 124 routes in 18 regions 56Smart Mobility Kochi providing transit information at 1,500 points56Nakamura Machi Bus anchored as a demand bus for local residents 57Hodatsushimizu-cho is needed by 64% of the elderly and the service area will be expanded 57

Constructing a ubiquitous environment with free mobility assistance 58Free mobility assistance project to assist anyone, anytime, anywhere 58Proving tests conducted in many parts of Japan 59

Assisting mobility of tourists with Machi Meguri Navi 60Proving tests in 25 regions in Japan 60

Making society more comfortable and convenient 61Car navigation systems have evolved and provide more services 62

Exceeding 25 million units by the end of 2006 62Huge evolution from the car navigation function62Advanced car navigation function 63Improved safe driving assistance 64Substantial entertainment services65

VICS has been installed in over 15 million vehicles in total, and the number is still increasing 66

Over 70% of all car navigation system shipped came with built-in VICS units in the last five years66Providing the latest road traffic information to drivers66Improving the accuracy of VICS information by using 5.8 GHz DSRC67

ETC utilization ratio exceeded 60% and the technologies will be increasingly used68Used by over 4.8 million vehicles a day, utilization rate to 75% by spring 20076887.5% of users mentioned "ETC is comfortable and convenient" 68ETC solved congestion near toll gates69Various toll discount services deployed to stimulate expressway usage 70Principal measures for promoting ETC71Use of ETC-related technologies for various purposes requested by the Japan Federation of Economic Organizations 72

Public parking lot payment services74Field trial of Parking lot ETC using existing ETC on-board units74Demonstration of cashless payment services by ITS on-boad units in "Demo 2006"75

Information connection services at roadside rest areas 76Proving tests at various sites using 5.8 GHz DSRC76"Town Car Life Navi" to improve the traffic environment by providing appropriate information77

Provision of information on road work 78Smooth traffic by road work management 78

Measures for promoting ITS 79Promotion of ITS as a national project 80

Joint promotion by industry / academia / government80ITS as a national project80

Smartway Project Advisory Committee serving as the nucleus82Working groups of the Smartway Project Advisory Committee conducting discussions 82Enhancing government-private sector collaboration to promote Smartway82Industry-academia-government collaboration83

Final report of government-private joint researches published84Results of government-private joint researches completed in March 2006 84Various next-generation road services to be provided by single ITS on-board unit with 5.8 GHz DSRC 85

Promoting ITS with communities and residents86Jointly promoted by industry, academia and government in the region86Acceleration of ITS introduction by "Project for developing ITS-related facilities" 87

Moving toward international standardization 88Actively participating in world conferences 88Interchange and cooperation for ITS promotion in the Asian and Pacific region 88ISO:International Organization for tandardization89Japan's activities for ISO/TC20490ITU : International Telecommunication Union 91ITU adopted the 5.8 GHz band DSRC as the first international radio communications standard for ITS 92

APPENDIX 93System Architecture93

Time-tables for the development and deployment of ITS in Japan93Detailed definition of user services94The two features101Measures taken for actualization of the two features 101

ITS Websites in Japan 102Cover: Satta-toge Pass (Left: "Yui" of the "Fifty-three stations on the Tokaido Road"

ANDO Hiroshige, Right: Photograph taken by OI Hirotsugu)

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Today deployed ITS services

ITS services further spreading in and after 2007

More various ITS services

Providing various services with a single ITS on-board unit

Deployment of the platform for next-generation road services

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Simplified procedures for boarding ferries

Free mobility assistance

Merging assistance

Quick provision of emergency

information

Provide crossing and other such safety

information for intersections

Information connection at roadside rest areas

Automatic payment at parking lot

Information for assisting safety driving

Overtaking lane crowded

Optimizing the lane use at sag sections

Provision of information

by still images

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Safety and safe driving

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Affluence and the environment

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Comfort and convenience

P61-78 (See pages 61-78)

Vehicular information

transmission

Service to identify the vehicle or individual driver and provide information to that vehicle or individual. Probes

Facility entry/exit management

Fee payment

Services to allow cashless payment of various types of fees that may be charged while riding in a car. Multi-purpose payments

ETC

Information provision

Services to provide various types of road traffic infor-mation or information on roadside facilities.

Internet connection

Information and warnings

Services that provide drivers with information and warn-ings to support their driving.

Driving support information VICS (Push-type data trans- mission/ VICS)

Warnings and vehicle control Provision of safety information, vehicle controls, automated driving

Others

Pedestrian support

Applications for inter-vehicle communication

Applications using wired communications

Fundamental services

ITS

Various services will be offered by combining fundamentalservices such as "Vehiclar information transmission", "Fee pay-ment", "Information provision", and "Information and Warnings".

The fundamental services will enable variousITS services

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Smartway Project Advisory Committee's working groups established

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Smartway Project Advisory Committee ProposalITS

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Summary of joint reserch

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Commencement of joint reserch

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Standards and specifications (draft)

Verification of actualization

Follow-up on the proposal

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Demo2006 Open trial: "Demo 2006" Tsukuba

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Reflecting the results in the summary of the joint reserch Publishing the results of the joint reserch

Field trial of Smartway

Smartway Project Advisory Committee

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Nationwide deployment

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ITS World Congress in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture (October 2004)

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New IT Reformation Strategy (January 2006)

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ITS200710 2007 ITS World Congress in Beijing (October 2007)

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(July 2006)

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Based on the proposals offered by the Smartway ProjectAdvisory Committee in August 2004, industry-government jointstudies have been conducted to decide standards and speci-fications, by considering international standardization, and toconstruct infrastructure. State-of-the-art ITS service will start inautumn 2007. (See page 82)

State-of-the-art ITS service to start in autumn 2007

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Even when various ITS services become available, it would beinconvenient if each ITS application, independently communi-cating various information, needed its own on-board units asthese would crowd the limited space around the driver's seat.Therefore, a single ITS on-board unit that can provide variousservices should be developed.The development and commodity production of ITS on-boardunits is being jointly promoted by governments, private compa-nies, and existing investigation committees which are decidingstandards and specifications based on international standards.Traffic safety and convenience for users are also considered toensure safety.

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Precise information about accident-prone road sections, traffic restric-tions, the end of queue of vehicles, etc. will be provided in real time totraveling vehicles to assist safe driving. (See pages 18, 22-27, 32, 67)

Information provision services along roadways

GPS

Server Center

Precise road traffic information (on congestion, etc., by voice and images)

Road administrators, public safety commissions

Monitoring camera

GPS signals

Uplink of probe data (including data about roads with no monitoring devices)

Congestion ahead.

The road is congested ahead. Precise information really helps.

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X Street is closed to traffic.

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Card information, entry time, charge, etc.

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Cashless payment will be introduced at public parking lots,freeing drivers from paying charges at gates and enablingthem to smoothly pass the gates. (See pages 18, 72, 74-75)

Providing various services with a single ITS on-board unit Information connection services

at roadside rest areas

Server at Roadside rest area

Roadside serverRequesting information

Internet

Roadside rest area

Select menu.

I'll guide you to ## Hospital.

I feel safe because I won't get lost.

Road traffic information, points of interest information, etc.

Any hospital nearby?

SAPAP1876-77

Provision of information on local traffic conditions and point ofinterest at roadside rest areas in parking vehicles will benefitdrivers and revitalize local communities. (See pages 18, 76-77)

Collecting, editing, and storing information to be provided

Collecting, editing, and storing information to be provided

Processing probe data

Charge transaction

Operating gates of parking areas

Displaying charges

External systems

APIBasic API

Individual applications

Road-vehicle communication

APIBasic API

IPNon-IP communication

Extended link control protocol

DSRCDSRC protocol

IP IP communication

Information connection at roadside rest areas

Information provision along roadways

Public parking lot payment

DSRC For DSRC block

Various new public and private services that utilize the commonplatform are expected to be deployed, including Informationprovision along roadways, Information connection at roadsiderest areas and Public parking lot payment. Standards and spec-ifications for on-board and roadside ITS units are now beingdrawn up, and measures for facilitating usage, such as com-mon logos, are being investigated.

ITS

A common platform for deploying various private services

API

API

ITS

Car navigation

Basic Application Program Interface for all services

Road-vehicle communication

Individual application

Basic Application Program Interface for all services

Road-vehicle communication

ITS on-board units

Road-vehicle communication

Roadside units

VICSETC

ITSITSAPIApplication Program Interface

Services such as car navigation systems, VICS, and ETC are nowprovided by different on-board units. The units will be integrated, andvarious next-generation services will be provided by a single device.The system for providing next-generation services will consist ofroadside units, ITS on-board units, and road-vehicle communication.The roadside units and ITS on-board units will be installed with theBasic Application Program Interface, which will cover all services.

Next-generation road service system consisting of roadside units, ITS on-board units,and road-vehicle communication

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Next-generation services will be provided from roadside units to ITS on-board units in cooperation with external systems. (See pages 12-13, 18)

Various services provided by roadside units to ITS on-board units

VICSETCITS P12-1318

ITS

Services such as VICS and ETC are now provided by differ-ent on-board units. Next-generation road services will bedelivered by a single unit by defining common mechanisms.(See pages 12-13, 18)

Providing a varity of services with a single ITS on-board unit

Deployment of the platform for next-generation road services

Support for safe driving

More efficient road administration

Greater business efficiency

Map downloads

Creating business opportunities

Convenience stores and supermarkets

Fleet management

Restaurants

Dispatch control

Next-generation road services

Information connection at roadside rest areas

Public parking lot payment

Information provision along roadways

Platform

Cashless payment

Private parking facilities

Gas stations

APIBasic API

Car navigation

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Smartway 2007, which will make state-of-the-art ITS services areality, will be deployed from October 15 to 17, 2007, mainlyon the Metropolitan Expressway. Based on this trial, the sys-tem is to be deployed on a full scale throughout Japan from2008 to make the nation's roads the safest in the world.The further information of the trial will be introduced on thewebsite. http://www.smartway2007.jp

Smartway 2007Deployment of the world's safest roads on an experimental basis

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SMARTWAY 2007

Up-link

The road is congested ahead. Precise information

really helps.

Congestion ahead.

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Still image information

Smooth traffic ahead!

Smooth traffic in the tunnel

Menu

Merging assistance

Roads merging ahead! Drive carefully

Roads merging ahead!

Drive carefully

Menu

Internet connection

HOME

Weather

Public transport

Notice

Point of interest

Road information

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Information for assisting safety driving

Congestion ahead. Drive carefully.

Congestion ahead. Drive carefully.

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Parking lot cashless payment

I don't need any tickets, and

it's so easy.

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Please move ahead.

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Network of the Metropolitan Expressway

Frequent trafficaccidents

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ASV

To reduce traffic accident fatalities to less than 5,000

Reducing traffic accidents with AHS

ASV systems to enhance the safety of drivers

Assisting safe driving by providing appropriate information during disasters

Advanced road management to improve safety and safe driving

Probe information to enable effective measures to be provided

Assisting safe driving with easy-to-drive maps

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"The Smartway open trial Demo 2006" was held in February 2006 at theNational Institute for Land and Infrastructure Management of the Ministryof Land, Infrastructure and Transport (Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture). TheInstitute and the 23 private companies that held the demonstration haveconducted joint researches since February 2005, and demonstrated theprovision of various advanced cruise-assist services through a single ITSon-board unit as a part of the research program. About 1,000 peopleexperienced the services during the demonstration. On the test course, drivers experienced the provision of informationthrough voice, still images and warnings; Information connection services at roadside rest areas, public parking lot payment services, andgas station payment services. Merging assistance based on DSRC forvehicle-road-vehicle communication was also demonstrated. (Seepages 32, 75-76, 84-85)

Smartway open trial to experience various services through a single ITS on-board unit

Provision of road traffic information

Provision of road traffic information (after emergency information)

Gas station payment

ETC

Information provision by voice

Storage and replay of information

Information provision by voice

Provision of information by still image

Tunnel

Merging assistance

Information connection services at roadside

rest area

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Frozen road sections are...

Road works ahead and lane ristriction...

Public parking lot payment

Quick provision of emergency information

Providing information for assisting safety driving