Emerging Needs for Land Vehicle Navigation & Related Services: Tracking, Location, Dispatch, Timing & Communications

Robert L. Gendler

Abstract:	The visual presentation of vehicle fleet movement on digitized maps can show a dispatcher what is actually happening out in the real world. Through a communication system, vehicles can transmit their location, status, and messages to a central station dispatch center. The need for reliable radio navigation systems has become an integral part of the emerging vehicle location/ vehicle management industry. The requirement to know where vehicles are located is becoming more important to public safety, mass transit, public works, utility companies, government agencies, security groups, commercial service comp??es, taxis, railroads, long haul trucking, local pick-up and delivery, messenger-courier companies, marine craft, and personal vehicles. The total market in the United States alone is over 162 million vehicles; worldwide it is 338 million automobiles and 96 million trucks and buses-a grand total of 436.5 million vehicles (Transportation Energy Data Book, 6th edition, 1981). The use of radio navigation with a communications system integrated with a central station hardware/software package can aid an organization to make money, save time, generate efficiencies, provide better customer service, protect property, and save lives. The body of this paper will discuss three such applications: public safety, mass transit, and trucking.
Published in:	Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of The Institute of Navigation (1988) June 21 - 23, 1988 U.S. Naval Academy Annapolis, Maryland
Pages:	15 - 17
Cite this article:	Gendler, Robert L., "Emerging Needs for Land Vehicle Navigation & Related Services: Tracking, Location, Dispatch, Timing & Communications," Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of The Institute of Navigation (1988), Annapolis, Maryland, June 1988, pp. 15-17.
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