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TABLE 38.3<br />

navigation systems VICS terminals also have grown very rapidly, as shown by the grey bars in Fig. 38.6<br />

since 1996.<br />

Besides VICS, five private companies shown in Table 38.3, Benz, Toyota, Nissan, Honda, and Sony,<br />

are also providing traffic information and other information such as parking area, weather forecast,<br />

sightseeing spots, and so on. Using the Internet, as Sony is doing, means no charge or fee to get<br />

information, except the media fee, to receive traffic information. In my opinion, it will be interesting to<br />

see which of the companies survive—the automakers or Sony.<br />

In-Vehicle Navigation System and VICS<br />

First of all, the Japanese in-vehicle navigation system will be explained more minutely. Figure 38.7 shows<br />

the four main functions an in-vehicle navigation system can provide.<br />

The first function is positioning of present vehicle location. Normally, global positioning system (GPS)<br />

and map matching technologies have been used to determine the present location of a car. The second<br />

function is route search between a present location of a vehicle and a driver’s destination. One can easily<br />

get an optimum route between the present location and the destination when only the destination is<br />

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Private Services of Information Provision<br />

Name Information Provided & Function Media Start<br />

Intelligent<br />

traffic<br />

guidance<br />

system<br />

1. Optimum route to destination, travelling<br />

time<br />

2. News, weather forecast<br />

3. Leasure information<br />

Moneh 1. Conjesion, construction, traffic control<br />

2. Parking, gas station, restaurant guide<br />

3. News, weather forecast<br />

Inter-navi<br />

system<br />

Compass<br />

link<br />

1. Setting of destination & course<br />

2. Connecting to internet<br />

3. Parking, gas station, restaurant guide<br />

1. Parking, gas station, restaurant guide<br />

2. News, weather forecast<br />

3. Response by operators<br />

Application<br />

Fee<br />

Annual<br />

Fee<br />

Cellular April ’97 ¥5,000 ¥36,000<br />

Cellular April ’98 ¥2,500 ¥6,000<br />

Cellular July ’98 ¥2,500<br />

Free 99/6<br />

¥6,000<br />

Free 99/6<br />

Cellular Sept. ’98 ¥3,500 ¥30,000<br />

Mobile link 1. Hotel, restrant, movies, news, TV guide Cellular Nov. ’97 Free Free<br />

FIGURE 38.7<br />

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Major four functions of car navigation.<br />

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