The Vehicle Information and Control System (VICS), a government-sponsored system in Japan with a 10-year track record, is one example of how information technology can be used to improve driving conditions [4]. Via VICS

--Basic research in information management, software architecture, human factors, traffic prediction and transportation planning is necessary to manage the integration of millions of disparate computers and sensors, in a high mobility environment, into a collaborative system. This system will then enable solutions to a set of transportation problems ranging from autonomous real-time routing and navigation, to autonomous driving, to inferring driving patterns via data mining. In this paper, this information architecture is discussed together with several innovative applications.