The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Kanto Regional Development Bureau and NEXCO EAST Kanto Regional Head Office Office will announce that the ITS Spot service of the section whose service has been postponed due to the Great East Japan Earthquake will start from July 14th.

At the same time, the service will start in the Niigata area.

As a result, Japan in which have already started the service in the Kanto region Expressway Co., Ltd. and Capital Expressway conjunction with the Corporation tube, it will be the service started in all sections.

○Start service on July 14
Kanto (NEXCO EAST jurisdiction) area and Niigata area
○ Scheduled to start in August
Tohoku area

• In service
  Hokkaido, Kanto (NEXCO CENTRAL and Metropolitan Expressway jurisdiction) and west of Chubu

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Map of ITS spots nationwide [PDF: 1.0MB]

For more information on ITS Spot Services, Here Please refer to the.

1 Start service from July 14th

Kanto Japan in which have already started the service in the local Expressway Co., Ltd. and Capital Expressway conjunction with the Corporation tube, will be the service started in all sections by ITS spot of about 430 groups.

Service provision range around the Kanto area

2 What is ITS Spot

Expressway performs a high-speed, high-capacity communication between approximately 1,600 groups were placed at the center on the "ITS spot" to have been mounted on a vehicle "corresponding car navigation systems", wide-area road traffic information and voice, image and provide At the same time, information will be exchanged from the car.

3 Service content

・Three basic services
[Dynamic route guidance]
Receives a wide range of traffic congestion data. Car navigation makes smart route selection.
[Safe driving assistance]
Precautions to reduce near misses while driving.
[ETC]
ETC service is also realized.

・Other services
[Internet connection] (realized on some models)
You can access the Internet from your car navigation system at service areas and roadside stations.

・Future services
In addition, services such as payment, tourism, and logistics will be developed in the future.
For these services, we are promoting verification through public-private partnerships.

1) Dynamic route guidance
In the metropolitan area, by sending information on the entire metropolitan area, you can select a route that avoids congestion in the city center from a large number of routes, and you can effectively use the entire road network. (Until now, FM-VICS was delivered only by prefecture.)

Image of providing wide area road traffic information [Metropolitan area: Case in Saitama Prefecture]

In the case of movement between major cities, we will provide wide-area road traffic information (time required to reach the destination, traffic closures, traffic jams, etc.) from the ITS spot in front of the junction where route selection is possible.

Example of movement between cities (Tokyo-Fukushima)

2) Safe driving support
It is an ITS spot that normally provides wide-area road traffic information, and provides safe driving support information in an emergency in accordance with traffic safety issues on each road.

3) ETC
ITS Spot uses the same communication technology as ETC, and you can receive the service of conventional ETC by using a compatible car navigation system.

4) Other services
With some models, you can access the Internet from a car navigation system at service areas or roadside stations.