The last few years have seen the emergence of many new technologies that can potentially have major impacts on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). One of these technologies is a micro-electromechanical device called smartdust. A smartdust device (or a mote) is typically composed of a processing unit, some memory, and a radio chip, which allows it to communicate wirelessly with other motes...

Effective transportation systems lead to the efficient movement of goods and people, which significantly contribute to the quality of life in every society. In the heart of every economic and social development, there is always a transportation system. Meanwhile, traffic congestion has been increasing worldwide because of increased motorization, urbanization, population growth, and changes in p...

Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), or the advanced use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in the transportation context, offers new tools in the continual effort to develop an accessible, safe, and sustainable transportation system. In this thesis, focus is placed on ITS targeting individual use or the end users’ transportation experiences, e.g. video surveillance, cashles...

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Intelligent transportation systems consisting of hundreds of individual vehicles which sense, decide, and act in the same-shared environment can be designed and controlled in two fundamentally different ways, using a centralized or distributed approach. The centralized approach implies an external system taking over the control of the vehicles and coordinating them, for instance by forming plat...

One of the main goals of intelligent transportation systems (ITS) is economical profit in the form of fuel consumption reduction, efficient use of existing infrastructure, pollution reduction and so on. Certainly, the economical goal is not the only one. Increasing mobility, safety and passenger comfort are other very strong motivations for implementation of ITS in practice. The paper analyzes ...

Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) are increasingly being deployed in work zones to improve traffic operations and safety. Also known as Smart Work Zone Systems, these deployments provide real-time information to travelers, monitor traffic conditions, and manage incidents. Despite numerous ITS deployments in work zones, a framework for evaluating the effectiveness of these deployments doe...

Transportation is the driving force of any country. Today we are facing an explosion in the number of motor vehicles that affects our daily routines. Intelligent transportation systems (ITS) aim to provide efficient tools that solve traffic problems. Predicting route congestions during different day periods can help drivers choose better routes for their trips. In this paper we propose “HITS” a...

This work analyzes many different models and algorithms in the literature for the optimization of routes and frequencies of buses, necessary in the framework of the support tools development to take decisions for the collective urban public transportation systems design. The problem is NP-hard, for which diverse heuristic procedures to resolve it have been proposed in the literature. The method...

ABSTRACT Integrating individual intelligent transportation systems into comprehensive platforms is a key challenge faced by transport authorities in the provision of optimal services to users. The use of an ITS architecture encourages structured development and integration of ITS systems that leads to maximization of benefits by minimizing redundancies and maximizing capabilities. This paper pr...