IN-VEHICLE SIGNAGE

Traffic signs are used for prohibitions, to inform, advice, or warn drivers. They can be temporary or permanent, and static or dynamic. In-vehicle signage brings part or all this information inside the vehicle, and thus can be personalized: only relevant information for the driver, at the moment it is relevant, can be communicated with the driver, in the most appropriate way. 

 

Significant costs are involved in installing and maintaining all these traffic signs, and in-vehicle signage can reduce the costs related to the provisioning of the information to the driver: the aim of in-vehicle signage is to improve the effect of providing the information (safety, traffic flow, comfort, etc.) at a reduced cost. 

 

It is important to consider that complexity of the implementation is tightly coupled to the requirements. In-vehicle signage can be provided as an add-on service to a navigation service and requires no strict guarantees, but that is changed significantly if in-vehicle signage is aimed to be a replacement for (dynamic) traffic signs.