The auto-maker has moved to the next stage of its ambitious intelligent transport system (ITS) project that employs vehicle-to-infrastructure communications that allows synchronised communications between vehicles and traffic signals.
The company has started deploying intelligent traffic lights at its Nissan Technical Centre in Kanawaga Prefecture in Japan to collect real-world data from several hundred employee cars participating in the project.
The new traffic system aims to help reduce accidents as well as ease traffic congestion – specifically at traffic light intersections – leading to improved on-the-road fuel consumption.
Two intersecting main roads within the company’s research centre, each with multiple intersections and crosswalks, provide the basic parameters for the ITS experiment.
Nissan has installed standard traffic lights and roadside optical beacons along these test-roads. For specific data to support the development of the navigation program being tested, hundreds of employees’ cars will be equipped with the specially designed vehicle information and communications system units.
Based on traffic volumes, the system will calculate to optimise the timing lapse between crossing pedestrians and the change in traffic-signal.
Under the Nissan Green Program 2010, announced in December 2006,
Nissan is working to develop the new technologies to reduce carbon-dioxide emissions and the ITS project in Kanagawa contributes by reducing traffic congestion.
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