National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis

This report highlights a trio of research papers presented at the First Vehicle Navigation and Information System Conference (VNIS ’89), in Toronto, Canada on September 11-13, 1989. The conference consisted of fifteen paper sessions, including Programs and Policy, System and Technology Evaluation, Driver Response to Real-time Traffic Information, Digital Maps and Geographic Information Systems, Traffic Management Applications, and Human Factors. The papers reproduced here are intended to assist others in the study of human navigation, navigation systems, or spatial cognition in general. Their content is essentially the same as in the conference proceedings, although a few minor changes and corrections have been made, and the papers have been re-formatted and re-paginated.