Articles for ITS market
2018
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New proposal for Private Car Automated Driving Level and other Hot 5G Technology Topics
In mid-November, 2018 many governments, local governments, companies, and academic people involved in automated driving from all over the world gathered in Odaiba, Tokyo, Japan. E...
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Standardized EV charging infrastructure concerns in Europe, US, Japan and China - Kobe EVS 31 field report -
The International Conference on Electric Vehicles including EV, Fuel Cell Vehicles and Exhibition "EVS 31 (The 31st International Electric Vehicles Symposium)" was held at...
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Touring a pure car carrier and a test drive of the latest hybrid car
Subaru held interesting events in the Kawasaki coastal area of Kanagawa prefecture, Japan on September 10 – 14 2018. They showed the "New Forester STEP Experience Test Drive ...
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Planning stage products are exhibited at the newly established visualized mobility service "TOYOTA MOBILITY SHOWROOM".
Toyota has launched a new challenge for mobility. On August 1, 2018, Toyota opened the "TOYOTA MOBILITY SHOWROOM" in Tokyo as a facility to offer information to corporatio...
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Potential “Community Car-share” program promoted by local residents
I arrived at Ishinomaki station about one hour from Sendai station by JR Senseki line. There are art works including, “Kamen Rider” and “Cyborg 009” in front of the station. Many ...
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CES Asia Report 2108
CES Asia (June 13th-15th, 2018) was held in Shanghai New International Exhibition center, the between Shanghai city and Shanghai Pudong International Airport.CES (Consumer Electro...
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Companies attempt new Vehicle-to-Infrastructure communications, including traffic volume measurements and vehicle positioning. -ITS Asia Pacific Forum in Fukuoka-
The ITS Asia Pacific Forum was held on May 8 - 10, 2018 at Fukuoka International Conference Hall. ITS is an abbreviation for Intelligent Transport System and has an important role...
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Geneva show in Switzerland. Flying cars and MaaS (Mobility as a Service) were hot topics.
The annual Geneva show was held this year and press releases were also announced on March 6 before being publicly released. Show highlight exhibits included high-class electric ve...
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EV (Electric Vehicle) proposals by country
"Shift to EV" became a hot topic in Japan in 2017. A lot of feature articles on EV were promoted in television and economic magazines. Meanwhile, in the background there...
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MaaS competition through service mobilization, M & A and technical field collaboration is accelerating. - The CES 2018 Report -
The CES (Consumer Electronics Show) in Las Vegas came and has now become the annual event for the automobile industry. At CES the latest consumer electronics IT related manufactur...
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2017
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Big data’s initiative and fight for the automotive industry. Cooperation among companies becomes increasingly important.
The automobile industry is now in the midst of a major transition period that is cyclical and happens after many years of low technological growth. In the beginning of December I ...
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Connected car and road-to-vehicle communication automatic operation
I tried Nissan's latest version automated driving car in Odaiba, Japan area where the 45th Tokyo Motor Show (open to the public from October 27th - November 5th, 2017) had been he...
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ETC (Electronic Toll Collection) and ETC2.0. Current situation and projected future
Japanese car navigation systems, VICS (Vehicle Information and Communication System) and ETC are recognized as the most advanced, practical use ITS (Intelligent Transport System) ...
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Rapid development of sharing economy
The New Mobility World Show, which is being held jointly at the IAA (International Auto Show: Frankfurt Motor Show) in Frankfurt, Germany, was a great success. New Mobility World ...
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Germany is first to recognize level 3 automated driving
I covered the automated driving symposium organized by the Transportation Research Board, an advisory body of the US government. The official name is AUVSI Automated Vehicle Sympo...
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ITS EU 2017 Field Reports -Automatic Operation and the eCall-
In late June, the 12th ITS EU 2017 conference was held in Strasbourg city in eastern France.“ITS” is the Intelligent Transport Systems. The ITS worldwide conference where all coun...
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From Infotainment to ITS, the competitive area is spreading in the car big data industry.
"Ladies and gentlemen, there is a big announcement today!" AGL's director, Mr. Dan Carty, was all smiles on the stage. The announcement was Toyota would do the initial m...
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GTC (GPU Technology Conference) Report and the de facto standardization of AI (artificial intelligence)
NVIDIA, the leading GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) giant, held the GTC. An annual, 4 day meeting held in the United States for developers at the convention center in San Jose from...
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Renesas' new challenge! "e-AI Solution" and "Renesas Autonomy"
Renesas Electronics, the largest automotive microcontroller and microprocessor manufacturer - (hereinafter both are abbreviated as microcomputers) held the DEVCOM conference in To...
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The Automobile industry is shifting from a manufacturing industry to a service industry.
On February 15 Toyota released a new model, the "Prius PHV" which will be a full model change for the first time in five years. At the press conference TOYOTA emphasized...
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The movement toward accident countermeasures for aging drivers in Japan
Traffic accidents by elderly drivers are not reducing at the overall national rate. Many cases have occurred including driving the wrong way on highways, driving on sidewalks duri...
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Fusion of ride sharing and fully automated driving is advancing in the USA.
CES (Consumer Electronics Show), the world's largest show for IT and consumer electronics, was held in Las Vegas, USA in early January this year.Literally, here is a place where g...
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2016
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Overview of the Quasi-Zenith Satellite System (QZSS) and advancements toward full-scale practical use including the Tokyo Olympic Games - G-space EXPO 2016 report-
The G-space EXPO 2016 was held November 24 - 26, 2016 at the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation. G-space is a generic term for utilizing highly geospatial informat...
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Japan’s automated driving project "SIP-adus" will be a large demonstration experiment.
The Japanese government is promoting the strategic innovation and creation program (abbreviated as SIP) as the core strategies growth and development for the next generation’s sci...
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The International Home Care & Rehabilitation Exhibition. There were many car manufactures with exhibits booths at this show.
This year, the largest welfare event in Asia "International Welfare Equipment Exhibition" (October 12 - 14, 2016) was held in Tokyo. The latest in welfare equipment was ...
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Japanese car manufacturers starting to concentrate on strengthening the ADAS system
In summer of 2016 the Japanese car manufacturers have strengthened their mass production of the ADAS (Advanced Driver Assistance System). Among them, Nissan is the most aggressive...
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A new movement of legislation for autonomous cars
I covered the automated vehicles symposium again this year. The AUVSI (The Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International) based in the US is the biggest organization in t...
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Cyber Security and “AGL”, the new OS for automotive are hot topics in the connected car industry
There were many conferences held during July in Tokyo regarding the next generation automotive. On July 11th and 12th the TU automotive conference named “Autonomous Vehicle and AD...
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“High precision 3D map” the key future of autonomous car and pedestrian dead reckoning
In Japan, there was a new topic regarding a map for the automotive industry. On May 19th, 2016, the establishment of a company named “Dynamic Map Planning Co., Ltd” was announced....
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Chinese “BAT” is accelerating their business in the EV (Electric Vehicle) market
I covered the Auto China (April.29th to May 4th 2016) takes place once every two years in Bei Jing and found lots of EV (Electric Vehicles) were exhibited. This is because the wor...
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Tesla's original connection to Taiwan and the new transportation system technologies.
Taiwan is now gathering the attention of the worldwide economic and political sectors now that the acquisition of SHARP by Hon Hai / Foxconn Technology Group was settled and the D...
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"The main topic" of the Geneva Motor Show was how to strengthen "pedestrian protection"
I covered the Geneva Motor Show in Switzerland (the public opening was from March 3 to 13, 2016) again this year. In Europe the Frankfurt Motor Show and Paris Motor Show are held ...
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The probe data business is getting more competitive
Recently Tesla's autonomous driving is the hot topic in Japan because it can change lanes automatically and the Japanese government has approved it to run on public roads in Japan...
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Reporting directly from the 2016 CES show "Data services will soon become the main revenue source of automotive industry"
"The work for everyone begins at CES show every year" People in the Electronics industry, telecommunications industry and recently even people in the automotive industry...
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2015
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Do the automated driving systems need the GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) ?
On November 27th 2015, the Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism announced “Eliminate the traffic accidents of Wrong-way driving on the expressway until...
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ETC Version 2.0 is coming soon. A new service was announced at the Tokyo Motor Show and the possibility that is could be used as a device for older drivers.
The 44th Tokyo Motor Show (October 30th to November 8th 2015) reached 812 thousand visitors in total and ended with a big success. I thoroughly covered the “Smart Mobility City” a...
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"Connected Horizon" and "eHorizon". Germany's leading parts supplier accelerates strengthening of "Big Data" for business
I thoroughly covered the world's largest Frankfurt Motor Show held in mid September 2015. The major European Motor Shows are held in Geneva, Switzerland in March every year and i...
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Mr. Kenji Momota Automotive journalist
His major is the world automotive industry and he is also familiar with the energy industry, IT and the aging society problem as the related fields. He acts around the world based in Japan and USA and writes for the general magazines, the technology journals and the automotive related media etc.
He is also commentator of motor race and world's motor show on TV program based on his career of the driver of Indy Racing League and NASCAR. In recent years, he has been covering about a paradigm shift from developed countries to developing countries, the motorized vehicle like EV and the telematics.
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