Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS): Past, Present and Future Directions

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Gaetano Fusco (Editor)
Department of Civil, Constructional and Environmental Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

Series: Transportation Issues, Policies and R&D
BISAC: TEC009160

Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS): Past, Present and Future Directions introduces the reader to the fundamentals of the ITS. It provides an overview of their evolution, starting from the earliest experiments on the route guidance systems in the 70s to their current deployment, and discusses the main challenges to face for their future development. (Imprint: Nova)

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1. Introduction to Intelligent Transportation Systems
Gaetano Fusco (Department of Civil, Constructional and Environmental Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy)

Chapter 2. The Basic Technologies for ITS and Their Applications: The Present and Future of Traffic and Vehicle Monitoring
Bruno Dalla Chiara, Francesco Deflorio, and Angela Carboni (Dept. DIATI – Transport systems, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy)

Chapter 3. Opportunistic Networking for ITS
Rodrigo Silva, Jean-Marie Bonnin (Telecom Bretagne, Rennes, France), and Thierry Ernst (YoGoKo, France)

Chapter 4. Evaluation and Optimization of Infrastructure Deployment Strategies for Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks
Amine Kchiche and Farouk Kamoun (National School of Computer Science, Campus Universitaire, Manouba, Tunisia)

Chapter 5. Discovering Information from Spatial Big Data for ITS
Sergio Di Martino (DIETI, University of Naples “Federico II”, Naples, Italy)

Chapter 6. Modern Traffic Control Centres and Traffic Management Systems
Lorenzo Meschini (SISTeMA s.r.l., PTV Group. Rome, Italy)

Chapter 7. Urban Traffic Signal Optimisation
Gaetano Fusco, Guido Gentile, and Pietro Meschini (Department of Civil, Constructional and Environmental Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy)

Chapter 8. Sustainable Ramp Metering for Freeway Traffic Control
Cecilia Pasquale, Simona Sacone, Silvia Siri (Department of Informatics, Bioengineering, Robotics and Systems Engineering, University of Genova, Italy)

Chapter 9. Dynamic Travel Demand Estimation and Prediction Methods
Ernesto Cipriani and Marialisa Nigro (Department of Engineering, “Roma Tre” University, Rome, Italy)

Chapter 10. Dynamic Traffic Assignment for ITS
Akmal Abdelfatah (Civil Engineering Department, American University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE)

Chapter 11. Dynamic Traveler Information Systems
Gaetano Fusco, Chiara Colombaroni and Natalia Isaenko (Department of Civil, Constructional and Environmental Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy)

Chapter 12. Automated Road Vehicles and Transport Systems
Adriano Alessandrini (DICeA – Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile e Ambientale, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy)

Chapter 13. Traffic Management Perspectives in the Presence of Autonomous Vehicles
Aleksandr V. Belov (Transportation Systems Department, Saint-Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Saint-Petersburg, Russia)

Index

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