Route Guidance Systems

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This chapter, from a handbook on transportation systems and traffic control, presents a discussion on route guidance systems. After first defining route guidance and its many alternative forms, the authors next discuss stand-alone systems, including Internet-based systems and dispatching systems. A discussion on in-vehicle systems follows, in which the authors look at operator-assisted route guidance, autonomous route guidance, and dynamic route guidance systems, as well as discussing the benefits of in-vehicle systems. The authors conclude with a look at the future of route guidance.