scholarly journals Analysis of intelligent transport systems on the example of the city of Krakow

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (5) ◽  
pp. 30-35
Author(s):  
Mariusz Niekurzak ◽  
Ewa Kubińska-Jabcoń ◽  
Agnieszka Bazior
Keyword(s):  
Muscle Power ◽  
Urban Transport ◽  
Transport Systems ◽  
Intelligent Transport Systems ◽  
Intelligent Transport ◽  
The Road ◽  
Management Board ◽  
Transport Services ◽  
The Right ◽  
The City

The object of research is urban transport in Krakow. The road users are drivers and passengers of combustion vehicles, rail vehicles, electric vehicles and those powered by muscle power, as well as pedestrians. Everyone has the right to use public roads, but under certain conditions. The city’s goal is to provide such infrastructure and enact laws that will enable them to co-exist. The Management Board of Municipal Infrastructure and Transport is tasked with providing such organization of traffic, including public transport, that the city will be passable and passengers’ requirements are met. The journeys should be smooth and without major disturbances. An innovative solution in the field of transport services in passenger traffic is the use of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS).

scholarly journals Transient-based automatic incident detection method for intelligent transport systems

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 2-13
Author(s):  
Attila M. Nagy ◽  
Bernát Wiandt ◽  
Vilmos Simon
Keyword(s):  
Road Network ◽  
Detection Method ◽  
Transport Systems ◽  
Incident Detection ◽  
Intelligent Transport Systems ◽  
Intelligent Transport ◽  
The Road ◽  
Big Cities ◽  
On The Road ◽  
The City

One of the major problems of traffic in big cities today is the occurrence of congestion phenomena on the road network, which has several serious effects not only on the lives of drivers, but also on city inhabitants. In order to deal with these phenomena, it is essential to have an in-depth understanding of the processes that lead to the occurrence of congestion and its spilling over into contiguous areas of the city.

scholarly journals Reliability And Safety As An Objective Of Intelligent Transport Systems In Urban Areas

2015 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacek Oskarbski ◽  
Kazimierz Jamroz
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
Urban Transport ◽  
Transport Systems ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Intelligent Transport Systems ◽  
Intelligent Transport ◽  
Transport Services ◽  
Transport Behaviour ◽  
Transport Telematics

Abstract Technologies that use transport telematics offer tools for strengthening urban transport systems. They rationalise the use of the existing infrastructure and transport management systems, increase their reliability and safety and improve the transport behaviour of residents, while reducing the operating costs of transport. The main reason for using Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) is the need to implement measures to reduce the negative effects of growing motorization and improve the quality of transport services in response to the fluctuating transport demand. The authors present ways to improve the reliability and safety of transport in the street network by using ITS solutions.

scholarly journals Evaluation of Intelligent Transport Systems Used in Urban Agglomerations and Intercity Roads by Professional Truck Drivers

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 2935
Author(s):  
Natalia Drop ◽  
Daria Garlińska
Keyword(s):  
Truck Drivers ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Transport Systems ◽  
Emergency Vehicle ◽  
Intelligent Transport Systems ◽  
Traffic Lights ◽  
Intelligent Transport ◽  
Systems Research ◽  
Variable Content ◽  
The City

Using intelligent transport systems in cities is gaining popularity. The fundamental aim of their existence is to improve safety and traffic flow and prevent congestion in city centres. All people moving around the city, such as public transport passengers, as well as truck and emergency vehicle drivers and drivers of passenger vehicles, are users of intelligent transport systems. Research which was carried out for the article entirely concerns functioning and utility of intelligent transport systems from truck drivers’ experience. The main aim of the research was to evaluate services and tools within intelligent transport systems in European cities which are visited by Polish truck drivers. Our research indicates that most drivers (almost 98%) stated that they find intelligent transport systems useful and 92.5% of interviewed pointed that intelligent transport systems help with their everyday work duties. Of all the tools in the survey drivers agreed that variable content signs, accommodative traffic lights, and extra road illumination have most influence in road safety. Identifying the most useful and helpful tools of intelligent transport systems will allow to define their preferred development directions from truck drivers’ point of view.

scholarly journals Assessing the impact of case mobility: issues and recommendations from Greece

2021 ◽  
Vol 68 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Athanasios Thanos Giannopoulos
Keyword(s):  
Performance Indicators ◽  
Evaluation Framework ◽  
Transport Systems ◽  
Intelligent Transport Systems ◽  
Intelligent Transport ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Mobility Matrix ◽  
Living Labs ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City

AbstractThis paper is concerned with the assessment of future applications of CASE (Co-operative, Autonomous, Shared, and Electric) mobility—a term that is also taken to include the more traditionally known applications of ITS (Intelligent Transport Systems). It sets the objective of making such assessments more holistic and horizontal in nature because future CASE mobility applications will include many technologies and service concepts as an integrated whole serving specific mobility objective. Traditional evaluation methodologies will therefore have to be modified to account for this situation, and to this end, the paper focuses on assessing and adapting such “traditional” methodologies. It draws from the experience gained in Greece in the last decade when a substantial number of ITS applications were implemented and assessed, especially in the second largest urban area of the country, the city of Thessaloniki (part of the EU’s European Network of Living Labs). Four basic methodologies are selected: the use of KPIs (Key Performance Indicators), focused interviews, the CMME (CASE Mobility Matrix Evaluation), and the use of safety audits before and after the CASE mobility application. For the first three, the paper suggests specific indicators and/or content. It also gives an example of the use of CMME based on a use case from Thessaloniki. The contents and recommendations of this paper provide a better understanding of the emerging situation as regards CASE mobility applications and point to the need for establishing a timely and comprehensive CASE mobility evaluation framework at both national and European levels, for future implementations.

Social Cars

2014 ◽  
pp. 176-200
Author(s):  
Ronald Schroeter ◽  
Alessandro Soro ◽  
Andry Rakotonirainy
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Technologies ◽  
Transport Systems ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Intelligent Transport Systems ◽  
Intelligent Algorithms ◽  
Intelligent Transport ◽  
Locative Media ◽  
The Road ◽  
Over Time

Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) encompass sensing technologies, wireless communication, and intelligent algorithms, and resemble the infrastructure for ubiquitous computing in the car. This chapter borrows from social media, locative media, mobile technologies, and urban informatics research to explore three classes of ITS applications in which human behavior plays a more pivotal role. Applications for enhancing self-awareness could positively influence driver behavior, both in real-time and over time. Additionally, tools capable of supporting our social awareness while driving could change our attitude towards others and make it easier and safer to share the road. Lastly, a better urban awareness in and outside the car improves our understanding of the road infrastructure as a whole. As a case study, the authors discuss emotion recognition (emotions such as aggressiveness and anger are a major contributing factor to car crashes) and a suitable basis and first step towards further exploring the three levels of awareness, self-, social-, and urban-awareness, in the context of driving on roads.

scholarly journals Concepts of Development of Alternative Travel in Autonomous Cars

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (21) ◽  
pp. 8841
Author(s):  
Vytautas Palevičius ◽  
Rasa Ušpalytė-Vitkūnienė ◽  
Jonas Damidavičius ◽  
Tomas Karpavičius
Keyword(s):  
Transport System ◽  
Urban Transport ◽  
Transport Infrastructure ◽  
Transport Systems ◽  
Intelligent Transport Systems ◽  
Conceptual Tool ◽  
Intelligent Transport ◽  
Travel Planning ◽  
Autonomous Cars ◽  
Car Travel

Autonomous car travel planning is increasingly gaining attention from scientists and professionals, who are addressing the integration of autonomous cars into the general urban transportation system. Autonomous car travel planning depends on the transport system infrastructure, the dynamic data, and their quality. The efficient development of travel depends on the development level of the Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) and the Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems (C-ITS). Today, most cities around the world are competing with each other to become the smartest cities possible, using and integrating the most advanced ITS and C-ITS that are available. It is clear that ITS and C-ITS are occupying an increasing share of urban transport infrastructure, so the complex challenges of ITS and C-ITS development will inevitably need to be addressed, in the near future, by integrating them into the overall urban transport system. With this in mind, the authors proposed three autonomous car travel development concepts that should become a conceptual tool in the development of ITS and C-ITS.

scholarly journals Mobility and Network Selection in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks: User Approach and Implementation

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristian Roman ◽  
Ruizhi Liao ◽  
Peter Ball ◽  
Shumao Ou
Keyword(s):  
Heterogeneous Wireless Networks ◽  
Transport Systems ◽  
Intelligent Transport Systems ◽  
Medium Access ◽  
Intelligent Transport ◽  
Radio Access ◽  
Packet Scheduler ◽  
Wireless Standards ◽  
Wireless Infrastructure ◽  
The City

The Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) wireless infrastructure needs to support various safety and non-safety services for both autonomous and non-autonomous vehicles.The existing wireless infrastructures can already be used for communicating with different mobile entities at various monetary costs.A packet scheduler, included in a shim layer between the network layer and the medium access (MAC) layer, which is able to schedule packets between uncoordinated Radio Access Technologies (RATs) without modification of the wireless standards, has been devised and its performance evaluated.In this paper, we focus on the influence of mobility type in heterogeneous wireless networks.Three cases are considered based on the mobility in the city: walking, cycling, and driving. Realistic simulations are performed by generating mobility traces of Oxford from Google Maps and overlaying the real locations of existing WiFi Access Points. Results demonstrate that the shim layer approach can accommodate different user profiles and can be a useful abstraction to support Intelligent Transport Systems where there is no coordination between different wireless operators.

scholarly journals Assessment of the traffic light in Bydgoszcz in the view of law regulations

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (6) ◽  
pp. 1200-1204
Author(s):  
Radosław Klusek
Keyword(s):  
Transport Systems ◽  
Traffic Light ◽  
Intelligent Transport Systems ◽  
Traffic Lights ◽  
Intelligent Transport ◽  
The Road ◽  
Road Signs

By making changes in the regulations on road signs there should be specified a date for which the road manager should adapt an existing signs. The existing rules significantly changed the rules for the use of road signs. Some of these modifications concerned the traffic lights. According with that document these changes should be made up to 31 December 2008. As seen in Polish cities, not all managements have managed to adjust the traffic lights to the new rules. The following article presents results of analyzes to adapt 45 traffic lights to the current rules. Those traffic lights were redesigned to create Intelligent Transport Systems in Bydgoszcz.

scholarly journals The EU Horizon Europe programme: Funding opportunities for the meteorological and climate community – basic and application areas

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrian Broad
Keyword(s):  
Heat Waves ◽  
Transport Systems ◽  
Intelligent Transport Systems ◽  
Protection Mechanism ◽  
Intelligent Transport ◽  
The Road ◽  
On The Road ◽  
Funding Opportunities ◽  
New Framework ◽  
The Eu

<p>The EU has recently adopted its new Framework Programme for Research & Innovation called Horizon Europe (HE) with a budget of 95 billion euros over 7 years (2021-2027). It includes many fundamental and application science areas where the meteorological and climate community at large can contribute to and benefit from funding.</p> <p>The event will include an introduction by Dr. Adrian Broad (UK Met Office and EUMETNET) to the three pillars of HE, followed by more insights for our community into the most relevant clusters and connections with the important HE missions. This will include among others: climate systems and extreme weather; sustainable and intelligent transport systems in the air, on the road or seas; space weather and earth observation; renewable energy and agriculture sectors; the ocean and marine environment; heat waves and air pollution impact on health; technology and the digital economy; or safe systems for critical infrastructures. To conclude, links between HE and other relevant EU programmes will be made, focussing on Copernicus, Digital Europe and the Civil Protection Mechanism.</p>

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