Road-vehicle coordination demonstration experiment Shin-Tomei Expwy (section under construction)
For approximately three months from Monday, May 13, 2024 to Friday, July 26, 2024, a demonstration experiment of vehicle-to-infrastructure cooperation using vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communications with autonomous vehicles was conducted on the under-construction section of Shin-Tomei Expressway Expressway.
Road-vehicle cooperation demonstration experiment use case (click image to Large)
List of use cases 1 to 7
Providing road obstacle information to following vehicles
Providing optimal speed information, etc. according to road conditions and driving environment
Collection and provision of maintenance management information and operation support information using in-vehicle sensors, etc.
Remote monitoring and operation of connected vehicles during emergency stops
Optimization of Expressway networks by providing information according to traffic conditions
Maximum utilization of traffic capacity by providing vehicle group control information according to traffic conditions
Follow-up driving support by destination
Diagnosis of the suitability of the preceding vehicle while driving against the wind
Improving parking space usage efficiency assuming on-demand autonomous driving service within rest facilities
Strengthening information collection and provision through information linkage between vehicles and infrastructure
(Note) Some of the use case images include those that will be constructed in a disguised/temporary manner during the experiment, and some that will not be subject to the experiment.
Detailed video with all use cases
Location of road-vehicle cooperation demonstration experiment
A demonstration experiment was conducted on a portion of Shin-Tomei Expressway Tomei Expressway between Shin-Hadano IC and Shin-Gotemba IC, which is currently under construction.
Road-vehicle cooperation demonstration experiment List of participants (company names in alphabetical order)
| No | Representative company name | Participating company name | Use case for demonstration |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd. | ― | Use case 1 Use case 2 Use case 3 |
| 2 | KDDI Corporation | T2 Co., Ltd. | Use case 3 Use case 4 |
| 3 | Transportation Research Institute Co., Ltd. | Isuzu Motors Co., Ltd. Oriental Consultants Co., Ltd. Kyocera Corporation Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd. Advanced Mobility Co., Ltd. Toyota Motor Corporation Toyota Tsusho Corporation Hino Motors, Ltd. Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Co., Ltd. UD Trucks Co., Ltd. |
Use case 1 Use case 2 Proposed use case 1 |
| 4 | Softbank Corp. | Honda Motor Co., Ltd. Honda R&D Co., Ltd. |
Proposed use case 3 |
| 5 | Nagoya Electric Industry Co., Ltd. | ― | Use case 2 |
| 6 | NEC Corporation | ― | Use case 5 Use case 6 |
| 7 | Fujitsu Ltd. | ― | Use case 1 Use case 2 Use case 3 Use case 5 |
| 8 | Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd. | ― | Use case 1 Use case 2 Use case 3 |
| 9 | Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Machinery Systems Co., Ltd. | Spectee Co., Ltd. | Use case 1 Use case 2 Use case 7 |
| 10 | Mitsubishi Electric Co., Ltd. | Aisan Technology Co., Ltd. | Proposed use case 2 |
