Field Experiments

Since its founding, Toyota InfoTechnology Center has been receiving contracts for public R&D projects, and has been helping establish and standardize fundamental technologies by validating the research results in field experiments.

Internet ITS Field Test, etc.

FY2001

• Research into high-quality ITS connection technology: Seamlessly switching between cell phones, DSRC, and wireless LAN
• Internet ITS: Using the IPv6 technology to connect vehicles and various types of centers to the Internet

FY2002

• Smart Communication experiment: Demonstration of DSRC to provide various types of information at the Moriya Service Area, Joban Expressway

Ubiquitous ITS

We have been working on developing elemental road-to-vehicle communication technologies that promote safe driving. For example, we are developing a technology that ensures communication transmission even when a vehicle is behind a large truck and its driver cannot see ahead. This is achieved by linking to a channel of different frequency or switching the antenna beam.

(Research contract received from the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) for the period FY2005 to FY2007)

Probe Traffic Information System

We validated the effectiveness of a system that, as a next-generation ITS platform, generates road-based traffic information by collecting and utilizing the data that exists in taxi dispatching systems, etc. and estimating and providing interpolated data when actual data is missing.

(From FY2004 to FY2006, we participated in initiatives conducted by the Consortium for Software Engineering of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry)