Information technology (IT) provides the means to store, manipulate and disseminate massive amounts of data. The integration of IT at all levels of the transportation system creates the “intelligence” in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). But this integration is a long and difficult process of the search for, and the exploitation of, the numerous opportunities in the interconnected set o...

The importance of emergency response systems cannot be overemphasized today due to the many manmade and natural disasters in the recent years such as September 2001 and the recent Japan earthquake and tsunami disaster. The overall cost of the Japan disaster alone is estimated to have exceeded 300 billion USD. Transportation and telecommunications play a critical role in disaster response and ma...

This work builds upon established Sandia intelligent systems technology to develop a unique approach for the integration of intelligent system control into the U. S. Highway and urban transportation systems. The Sandia developed concept of the COPILOT controller integrates a human driver with computer control to increase human performance while reducing reliance on detailed driver attention. Th...

In the coming years, transportation system will be revamped in a manner that there will be more intellig ent and autonomous vehicle phenomenon around us s uch as smart cars, auto driving system, etc. Some of a utomotive industries are already producing smart cars . However, the main concern of this paper is on the in frastructure for connected vehicles, which can suppor t such intelligent trans...

This paper focuses on an overview of an autonomous navigation system in maritime transportation that is supplied with intelligent guidance to avoid collision, while respecting the COLREGs rules and regulations and using expert knowledge in navigation for close quarter’s manoeuvres. The proposed collision avoidance process consists of two modules: a fuzzy logic based parallel decision making mod...

As the intelligent railway is the trend of current railway development, the paper aims to show an overview of the Railway Intelligent Transportation System (RITS) in China. Firstly, the current transportation situation in China is given and then some basic concepts of RITS are talked about as well. Secondly, the necessity of RITS is analyzed to show its strategic position. Then, the overall arc...

Interactions are a core part of all multi-agent systems. They occur because of the inter-dependencies that inevitably exist between the agents and they manifest themselves in many different forms—including cooperation, coordination, and collaboration. However, perhaps the most fundamental and powerful mechanism for managing these inter-agent dependencies at run-time is negotiation—the process b...