LATERAL GUIDANCE AND LONGITUDINAL CONTROL FOR BUS RAPID TRANSIT FOCUS ON THE POSITIONING SYSTEM BASED ON GPS AND RFID TECHNOLOGY

摘要

TEOR is the East-West BRT system serving Greater Rouen, in France. It has been in operation for more than 5 years and is run with optically guided buses. Lateral guidance of the vehicles increases accessibility, safety and comfort. TEOR is a successful example of a bus system that offers high level of service at a reasonable cost. Building up on those years of commercial operation, our consortium drives today new developments to increase further TEOR services in the context of a 3-year long project named ANGO and funded by the French PREDIT program. One of the tasks of the project is to develop a localization embedded system that will provide accurate and secure longitudinal positioning information all along the route of the vehicle. This positioning information will then be exploited to introduce longitudinal control functionalities and Advanced Driver Assistance System (ADAS) that aim at improving fuel consumption, comfort, and maintenance. This paper will present requirements, solution and results obtained.