The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport(MLIT) of Japan is now promoting realization of Smartway (Intelligent road) which provides various services by advanced ITS technologies, and developing its common platform. The purpose of this paper is to report the results of public-private joint research toward the realization of next-generation road services, the outline of Smartway Open Field Test Demo2006 and the efforts towards ITS realization.
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