Communication Architectures and Services for Intelligent Transport Systems

Author(s):  
Marina Aguado ◽  
Nerea Toledo ◽  
Marion Berbineau ◽  
Eduardo Jacob

Current challenges in mobility and sustainable development are closely related to increasing travel safety, optimizing the use of transport infrastructure, reducing operating and maintenance costs and making public transport more attractive. The proposed solutions to these major challenges depend to a high extent, on political decisions, development of good practices, and also on the innovation and technology introduced through on-going Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) programs and initiatives. This chapter provides an overview on the communication architectures able to support these ITS programs. In order to do so, this chapter presents the current standardization initiatives in the vehicular environment, a description from the telecom point of view of the different ITS services, and finally, a survey on the radio access technologies capable of dealing with such a demanding scenario.

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 2935
Author(s):  
Natalia Drop ◽  
Daria Garlińska

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.


2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 289-297
Author(s):  
Vladislav Gaidash ◽  
Alexander Grakovski

Abstract Vehicle counting is one of the most basic challenges during the development and establishment of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS). The main reason for vehicle counting is the necessity of monitoring and maintaining the transport infrastructure, preventing different kind of faults such as traffic jams. The main applied solution to this problem is video surveillance, which is presented by different kind of systems. Some of these systems use a network of static traffic cameras, expensive for establish and maintain, or mobile units, fast for redeployment, but fewer in diversity. In this paper, one particular concept of a low-cost mobile vehicle counting system is investigated, which uses an object detection method based on calculating “mass centre” of detected features of possible object. A hypothesis of improvement of the basic algorithm was formulated and a modification was proposed. In order to prove the hypothesis, both basic and modified algorithms were tested and evaluated.


2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (21) ◽  
pp. 8841
Author(s):  
Vytautas Palevičius ◽  
Rasa Ušpalytė-Vitkūnienė ◽  
Jonas Damidavičius ◽  
Tomas Karpavičius

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.


2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristian Roman ◽  
Ruizhi Liao ◽  
Peter Ball ◽  
Shumao Ou

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.


2019 ◽  
Vol 124 ◽  
pp. 65-78
Author(s):  
Krzysztof Krawiec ◽  
Marcin Jacek Kłos ◽  
Sylwester Markusik ◽  
Aleksander Bułkowski

The article presents threats related to broadly understood cybersecurity, encountered in modern public transport, especially in cases of increasingly introduced Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS). Experience to date has shown strong links between the technical sphere and IT system of public transport, ensuring its protection against unwanted externa l interference from people (or organizations) trying to disrupt its functioning. The following - inter alia - are of a key importance: the system of existing bus network as well as organization of bus work on routes (schedule) and its IT links, monitoring and system protection against external interference. The main goal of cybersecurity in public transport is to increase the level of cybersecurity in city agglomeration by increasing the availability of hardware and IT tools, included in intelligent transport systems, protecting safety and reliability of operation of public transport.


Author(s):  
Пышный ◽  
V. Pyshnyy ◽  
Моргачев ◽  
S. Morgachev ◽  
Коржанков ◽  
...  

The article presents some of the most urgent problems of the country´s transport infrastructure, and one of the ways to solve them, the main advantages of the introduction of intelligent transport systems in the Russian Federation in relation to road transport, also presented the priority goals and objectives of the ITS and their impact on the needs of society and the economy.


Author(s):  
Viacheslav N. Voronin ◽  
Arseniy A. Bimbinov ◽  
Alla L. Blagodir

This paper focuses on the potential problems of the introduction of digital technologies in transport in the socio-economic and legal dimension based on the assessment of the current state and development trends of the info and communication in the transport infrastructure in Russia, foreign experience. Moreover, it performs specific proposals for legal and financial regulation of issues and minimization of risks of liability for harm in conditions development of information transport systems. The paper analyses the role of the programs “Digital Economy of the Russian Federation” and “Safe and High-Quality Roads” in the development of intelligent transport systems that constitute some promising areas of the use of unmanned vehicles to improve the quality of life of people. Furthermore, we assess the development of entrepreneurial activity, high-tech industries, and the increase the investment attractiveness of Russia and analyse the strengthening of its position in the international arena. When it comes to the methodology, we use legal analytics, legislative technology, comparative law, and expert assessments. The results of this research reveal the features of the legal regulation of new and promising emerging relations in the digital economy. This is a strategic legal planning and legal experiment. Based on this conclusion, a system of prerequisites for the development of intelligent transport systems based on the analysis of national programs is formulated. The system of prerequisites includes three levels: I) technological prerequisites, II) infrastructural; and III) regulatory


2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 128-137
Author(s):  
V. N. Voronin

Despite the awareness of the importance of digital transformation of highways as the basis for life safety, social and economic development of the country, the issues of technical, legal and financial regulation of the digitalization of the transport complex at the federal and regional levels, a detailed assessment of the impact of digital technologies in transport on social and economic processes in modern Russian society. In the Russian doctrine in recent years, research has been carried out in general on the formation and development of the digital economy in Russia, in which intelligent transport systems are mentioned pointwise and only in general terms without their comprehensive analysis. Based on the assessment of the current state and trends in the development of info-communication transport infrastructure in Russia, foreign experience, potential problems of the implementation of digital technologies in transport in the socioeconomic and legal dimension were identified, specific proposals were formulated on the legal and financial regulation of issues and minimization of the risks of liability for harm in conditions development of information transport systems. The role of the programs “Digital Economy of the Russian Federation” and “Safe and High-Quality Roads” in the development of intelligent transport systems has been analyzed, and as a result, promising areas for the use of unmanned vehicles to improve the quality of life of people, develop entrepreneurship, high-tech industries, and increase the investment attractiveness of Russia have been identified. and strengthening its position in the international arena. The study used the following methodological principles: objectivity; determinism; historicism; integrity; consistency; structure; functionality; hierarchy; pluralism of explanation and understanding of law; comparative studies. The study uses private methods: legal analytics, legislative techniques, legal comparative studies, expert assessments. As the main results of the study, the features of the legal regulation of new and promising relations arising in the digital economy have been identified. This is a strategic legal planning and legal experiment. Taking into account this conclusion, a system of prerequisites for the development of intelligent transport systems was formulated based on the analysis of national programs. The system of prerequisites includes three levels: technological prerequisites, infrastructural and regulatory.


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