Information Display in a Vehicular Traffic Control System Of the Post‐1970 Era

This paper proposes the application of systems analysis and design techniques developed in space and military systems technology to the problem of national highway vehicular traffic control. A control system, comprised of computer and electronic peripheral equipment, information display equipment, highway traffic enforcement personnel and regulatory procedures is described, with emphasis on design considerations that must govern the information display components of such system. A Vehicular Traffic Control System would be designed to control the overwhelming increase of vehicular traffic over the nationwide system of highways projected into the next few decades. Information display in such a system will represent perhaps the most widespread use of electronic information display technology in the post‐1970 era.