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The Smart
Junction project in the international media:
BusinessWeek Discovery Channel SpaceMart
TechnologyHorizons
In Israeli media:
Channel 2
Haaretz TheMarker Ynet
(Hebrew)
Israel21C JPost
IsraelToday (English)
"Smart
Junction" is a 2 years project funded by the Israeli national road
safety authority, carried out by the Transportation research institute in
the Technion in Israel .
The goal of the research is to check feasibility and develop a prototype of
a device "smart signal for non-signalized intersection" , which
is assisting the driver in the secondary way in a non-signalized
intersection to obtain correct crossing decisions. The device is a system
installed in the intersection, observes the cars arriving to the
intersection - using video cameras - and detects hazardous situations. When
the system detects a hazardous situation it operates a system of lights,
not entirely unlike traffic signals, for the driver in the secondary way.
In the primary way, as today, the driver does not receive any signals.
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