Fusion on Vehicular Data Space: An Approach to Smart Mobility

Urban mobility aspects have become a challenge with the constant growth of the global population. As a consequence of such increase, more data has become available, which allows new information technologies to improve the mobility systems, especially the Intelligent Transportation System (ITS). However, the development of new applications and services for the ITS environment, improving the mobility, depending on the availability of vast amounts of data, despite its currently slow availability. This thesis aims to explore data from a vast number of sources from the ITS context to provide directions to improve mobility in cities. However, a substantial challenge emerges when we combine multiple data sources, increasing the data aspects as spatiotemporal coverage, which affects the development of Smart Mobility (SM) solutions. In this sense, we investigate solutions to improve the data quality of transportation systems, providing applications and services, enabling Intra-Vehicle Data (IVD) and Extra-Vehicle Data (EVD) fusion to enrich the raw data. We design a heterogeneous data fusion platform to SM, aiming to fuse those data considering their aspects, highlighting the most relevant methods and techniques to achieve the application goals.

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Planning and Design of a Taxipooling Dispatching System

Transportation Research Record Journal of the Transportation Research Board ◽

10.1177/0361198105190300110 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 1903 (1) ◽

pp. 86-95 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Ker-Tsung Lee ◽

Da-Jie Lin ◽

Pei-Ju Wu

Keyword(s):

Public Transportation ◽

Traffic Congestion ◽

Information Technologies ◽

Intelligent Transportation System ◽

Transportation Systems ◽

Urban Traffic ◽

Transit Systems ◽

Dispatching Algorithm ◽

Public Transportation Systems ◽

Parameter Values

Shifting people from driving to using public transportation has been important in alleviating urban traffic congestion. Intelligent transportation system technologies applied to public transportation can provide useful data to system operators and users and increase the use and productivity of high-occupancy vehicles. Integration of metropolitan rapid transit, feeder buses, and taxipooling can attract more public transportation users. Advanced taxipooling transfer assignment systems, a type of advanced public transportation systems program, aims to apply advanced technologies to taxi operations, including dynamic taxi fleet management, taxipooling strategies, and safety monitoring systems. Success in using taxis as a feeder service to mass transit systems requires advanced information technologies such as the Global Positioning System, geographic information systems, wireless communications, and, most important, an efficient taxi dispatching algorithm. The objectives and background of a dedicated taxipooling fleet in a metropolitan area are given. Also, a real-time, two-step taxipooling dispatching system is presented. A case study with parameter values obtained from Taiwan is explained; the simulation result is interpreted to illustrate the feasibility of the algorithm. Sensitivity analysis proves the robustness of the dispatching algorithm and shows the flexibility decision makers can have to serve certain purposes. Assumptions and constraints of the proposed dispatching system are evaluated, and the possibility of system expansion is discussed.

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Introduction to Urban Systems and Applications

Urban Informatics - The Urban Book Series ◽

10.1007/978-981-15-8983-6_10 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 149-152

Author(s):

Mei-Po Kwan

Keyword(s):

Information Technologies ◽

Urban Governance ◽

Energy Systems ◽

Transportation Systems ◽

Urban Systems ◽

Urban Freight ◽

Urban Informatics ◽

New Information ◽

Urban Energy ◽

Urban Issues

AbstractAs new information technologies and large amounts of data from a wide range of sources become available to government agencies and the public, urban researchers have started to investigate how these data can be used to enhance the planning and management of various urban systems. As a result, new methods for collecting and analyzing complex space–time data about urban systems have been developed to address various urban issues. These urban systems include transportation systems, energy systems, and health systems. In recent years, considerable new work has been conducted to examine how new information technologies and data can enhance our understanding of and ability to address urban issues. The eight chapters in this section present various applications of urban informatics to specific urban systems or phenomena, including human mobility and travel, urban freight systems, urban resilience and disaster response, urban crime, urban governance, the use of remote sensing for environmental monitoring, health and wellbeing, and urban energy systems. All of them emphasize how new, big, or open data are useful for helping us to better understand and manage specific urban systems. They also highlight significant challenges in such applications of urban informatics, which would be particularly helpful to urban researchers and planners.

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Activization of Children’s Reading Interests in German Libraries

Bibliotekovedenie [Library and Information Science (Russia)] ◽

10.25281/0869-608x-2009-0-4-90-94 ◽

2009 ◽

pp. 90-94

Author(s):

Larisa E. Kresova

Keyword(s):

Information Technologies ◽

Reading Interests ◽

New Information ◽

American Memory ◽

Children's Reading ◽

Technical Basis ◽

Children’S Reading

The activities of the American Memory Library, aimed at on activization of children’ reading interests in Germany are considered. The history, the collection composition, the material and technical basis and the organization of library space, as well as the usage of new information technologies in children's libraries of Germany are illuminated.

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On-line testing as a new method of student knowledge evaluation

Reports of Vinnytsia National Medical University ◽

10.31393/reports-vnmedical-2018-22(2)-25 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 22 (2) ◽

pp. 353-356

Author(s):

V.P. Kovalchuk ◽

I.M. Kovalenko ◽

S.V. Kovalenko ◽

V.M. Burkot ◽

V.O. Kovalenko

Keyword(s):

Information Technologies ◽

English Language ◽

Educational Process ◽

Personality Testing ◽

Online Testing ◽

Training Time ◽

Internet Resources ◽

New Information ◽

On Line ◽

Use Of The Internet

Innovations change the world in all spheres of life, and education is not an exception. Modern requirements of time put us new challenges that require the use of new information technologies at all stages of the educational process in higher education institutions, in particular the use of the Internet. In addition, it has been noted that Internet resources increase motivation and contribute to the formation of a fully developed personality. Testing and evaluating students' knowledge and abilities is an integral part of the credit-module system. One of the forms of evaluation of the initial level of knowledge, consolidation and improvement of assimilation of information is testing. It should be noted that in a number of countries, testing has shifted traditional forms of control — oral and written exams and interviews. However, in Ukraine, educators remain adherents of a combination of testing and classical analysis of material. It allows the most efficient distribution of the training time of a practical class, 100% control of the knowledge and the effectiveness of mastering the material of all the students of the academic group. Technical progress stimulates the search for new variants and possibilities of testing, its various variations. One of the options that can help solve this problem was a smartphone. In order to facilitate the work of the teacher at the Department of Microbiology, an online testing system with the use of smartphones was introduced. Online testing is conducted among students with Ukrainian and English language training. With the Google Forms platform, the teacher creates a form which contains the student's records and tests. Students directly from the teacher get a link to fill out an online form directly at the lesson. For testing, a database containing standard KROK-1 licensed test tasks is used. The form can contain any number of test tasks that are in arbitrary order, as well as a changed order of distractors, which makes it impossible to write off. At the same time, all students are in the same conditions: all write one option. After submitting the form, the student receives a notification that his response is recorded. Re-linking is not possible. In turn, the teacher receives a message on the result of the test in the table — the ratio of correct answers to the total number of questions, as well as options for their answers. First and foremost, questions are displayed on which students gave the largest number of incorrect answers. This allows the topic to be considered in the process of discussion of the most difficult tasks from the students perspective, and in the future it will allow more efficiently to create forms for on-line tests and to focus on these issues.

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On Introducing New Information Technologies in Jurisprudence

Rossijskoe Pravo. Obrazovanie, Praktika, Nauka ◽

10.34076/2410-2709-2019-3-82-86 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 82-86

Author(s):

Aleksandr Mitin

Keyword(s):

Information Technologies ◽

New Technologies ◽

Professional Competence ◽

Comprehensive Analysis ◽

Legal Services ◽

Degree Programs ◽

Creative Work ◽

Electronic Trading ◽

New Information ◽

Legal Space

The article discusses the possibilities of automation of legal activities. Special attention is paid to the new branch of the business LegalTech, which allows providing legal services using information technology. Some projects in this area are briefly described: FreshDoc document designer, VideoContract app, and electronic trading platforms such as Legal Space and Pravoved.Ru. Although the legal community is not quite ready to work in such conditions, higher education institutions are already reforming their curricula, developing disciplines that allow gaining professional competence in introducing technologies that automate legal work, and so on. The author, in turn, offers using chat bots in legal clinics, gives examples of new disciplines for master’s degree programs, considers the idea of passing final examinations outside universities in certification centers, etc. It is emphasized that in jurisprudence there are a lot of typical situations in which typical decisions need to be made, and here artificial intelligence will be a good helper, and scientists will have more time to undertake a comprehensive analysis of law. Thus, even with the advent of new technologies, the creative work of lawyers will always be in demand.

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Digital Middle East

10.1093/oso/9780190859329.001.0001 ◽

2018 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Keyword(s):

Middle East ◽

New Media ◽

Information And Communication Technologies ◽

Information Technologies ◽

Complex Dynamics ◽

Middle Eastern ◽

Mena Region ◽

New Information ◽

Fast Pace ◽

Information And Communication

In recent years, the Middle East’s information and communications landscape has changed dramatically. Increasingly, states, businesses, and citizens are capitalizing on the opportunities offered by new information technologies, the fast pace of digital transformations, and enhanced connectivity. These changes are far from turning Middle Eastern nations into network societies, but their impact is significant. The growing adoption of a wide variety of information technologies and new media platforms in everyday life has given rise to complex dynamics that beg for a better understanding. Digital Middle East sheds a critical light on continuing changes that are closely intertwined with the adoption of information and communication technologies in the MENA region. Drawing on case studies from throughout the Middle East, the contributors explore how these digital transformations are playing out in the social, cultural, political, and economic spheres, exposing the various disjunctions and discordances that have marked the advent of the digital Middle East.

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Beacon in Information System as Way of Supporting Identification of Cattle Behavior

Applied Sciences ◽

10.3390/app11031062 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (3) ◽

pp. 1062

Author(s):

Krzysztof Koszela ◽

Wojciech Mueller ◽

Jakub Otrząsek ◽

Mateusz Łukomski ◽

Sebastian Kujawa

Keyword(s):

Information System ◽

Information Technologies ◽

Physiological State ◽

Research Work ◽

Dairy Herd ◽

Weather Forecast ◽

Well Being ◽

Use Of Data ◽

New Information ◽

Conducting Research

The paper concentrates on researching the possibilities of using modern information technologies in animal production in order to monitor and identify behavior and well-being of cows. Having in mind the challenges related to managing dairy herds, and economic pressure put on breeders (as well as the broadly defined well-being of animals), an endeavor was made to create a new method, which would be competitive in comparison with the existing solutions. The proposed method of collecting data and data processing with beacon devices as well as data warehouse, allows—according to the authors—a more complete identification of behaviors and physiological condition of a dairy herd. It is also worth pointing out that this method is competitive in terms of price. By virtue of the multitude of data that were collected, a decision was made to resign from processing data on a local computer and use a cloud compute engine instead. The presented information system creates a sequence of components, which were subject to verification both on the level of creating and conducting research. Research results that were received were then compared with knowledge presented in the literature. A vital element of validation of the aforementioned methodology was comparing results that were achieved in the course of research work with the system making use of pedometer. The aim of the authors was to develop a new information technology solution, as well as a method based on beacons, which are rather universal devices, with the use of data warehouses, allowing the identification of behavior and physiological state of milk cattle, the method which would be competitive in comparison with the existing solutions, especially in terms of price. In the proposed solution, both information coming from microcomputers and weather forecast data coming from weather forecast stations, which make the above identification easy, were used as data sources.

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LPWAN-based hybrid backhaul communication for intelligent transportation systems: architecture and performance evaluation

EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking ◽

10.1186/s13638-021-01918-2 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 2021 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Taghi Shahgholi ◽

Amir Sheikhahmadi ◽

Keyhan Khamforoosh ◽

Sadoon Azizi

Keyword(s):

Low Power ◽

Intelligent Transportation Systems ◽

Intelligent Transportation System ◽

Road Traffic ◽

Intelligent Transportation ◽

Traffic Monitoring ◽

Transportation Systems ◽

Area Network ◽

Emergency Vehicle ◽

Wide Area Network

AbstractIncreased number of the vehicles on the streets around the world has led to several problems including traffic congestion, emissions, and huge fuel consumption in many regions. With advances in wireless and traffic technologies, the Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) has been introduced as a viable solution for solving these problems by implementing more efficient use of the current infrastructures. In this paper, the possibility of using cellular-based Low-Power Wide-Area Network (LPWAN) communications, LTE-M and NB-IoT, for ITS applications has been investigated. LTE-M and NB-IoT are designed to provide long range, low power and low cost communication infrastructures and can be a promising option which has the potential to be employed immediately in real systems. In this paper, we have proposed an architecture to employ the LPWAN as a backhaul infrastructure for ITS and to understand the feasibility of the proposed model, two applications with low and high delay requirements have been examined: road traffic monitoring and emergency vehicle management. Then, the performance of using LTE-M and NB-IoT for providing backhaul communication infrastructure has been evaluated in a realistic simulation environment and compared for these two scenarios in terms of end-to-end latency per user. Simulation of Urban MObility has been used for realistic traffic generation and a Python-based program has been developed for evaluation of the communication system. The simulation results demonstrate the feasibility of using LPWAN for ITS backhaul infrastructure mostly in favor of the LTE-M over NB-IoT.

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