California Partners for Advanced Transportation Technology

A preliminary evaluation of In-Vehicle Information Systems (IVIS) has been conducted by a research team at ITS and a final report entitled "Potential Benefits of In-Vehicle Information Systems in a Real Life Freeway Corridor under Recurring and Incident-Induced Congestion" [July  1988] [I] has been submitted to  the PATH program. The principle end-products of the mentioned effort were the development of a simulation test-bed for the Santa Monica freeway (SMART) corridor and the estimation of the travel time savings to potential (IVIS) users under two traffic scenarios: recurring congestion non-incident and non-recurring congestion incident scenarios.