Special issue on intelligent transportation systems

Editorial of the Special Issue "Intelligent Transportation Systems"

Transportation systems are very important in modern life; therefore, massive research efforts have been devoted to this field of study in the recent past. Effective vehicular connectivity techniques can significantly enhance efficiency of travel, reduce traffic incidents and improve safety, and alleviate the impact of congestion, constituting the so-called Intelligent Transportation Systems (IT...

Special Issue on Advances in Intelligent Systems

This special issue consists of five papers focused on recent developments in the field of Intelligent Systems. A worldwide recognized event in this field is the “International Conference on Intelligent Systems, Design and Applications” series, whose last year edition was held in Pisa, Italy, November 30 December 2, 2009. An assorted list of outstanding contributions to that conference was selec...

Special issue on Hybridization of Intelligent Systems

Hybridization of intelligent systems is a promising research field of computational intelligence focusing on synergistic combinations of multiple approaches to develop the next generation of intelligent systems. A fundamental stimulus to the investigations of Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS) is the awareness that combined approaches will be necessary to solve challenging problems in complex rea...

Special issue on modelling and control of intelligent transportation systems (ITS)

Over the last decades we verified a huge intensification of human, financial, resource and power flow throughout the world economy. This phenomenon, called as globalization, affects goods and passenger movement, and demands the availability of connections, such as communications and transportation, providing citizens wider options and mobility. Nowadays there is a saturation of transportation i...

Introduction to the Special Issue on Emergent Cooperative Technologies in Intelligent Transportation Systems