Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) technologies advance transportation safety and mobility by integrating advanced communication technologies into transportation infrastructure and into its vehicles.TS encompasses a broad range of wireless and traditional communications-based information and electronic technologies.
Intelligent Transportation System relies heavily on data collection and its analysis. Once the system is built to collect data and analyze it, the results are then used to control, manage and plan transportation. Sensors play an important role in data collection.
City roads are succumbing to the pressure of a growing urban population. One of the main applications of an intelligent transportation system is smart traffic management. Some of the other applications are:
Real-time parking management
Electronic toll collection
Emergency vehicle notification systems
Automated road speed enforcement
Speed alerts
RFID in freight transportation
Variable speed limits
Dynamic traffic light sequence
Collision avoidance systems
In the city of Glasgow, Scotland, Intelligent Transport System gives regular information to the daily commuters about public buses, timings, seat availability, the current location of the bus, the time taken to reach a particular destination, next location of the bus, and the density of passengers inside the bus.
The highly anticipated Sydney Metro, Australia’s biggest public transport project, will feature a driverless mass-transit system that is anticipated to nearly double the city’s existing transit capacity. Operations of the 36-km Northwest line are expected to start in 2019.
The Cityringen project in Copenhagen is a very ambitious project. The Cityringen is a driverless metro that will form a new circular line in the centre of the city and consists of two parallel tunnels some 15.5 km long and 17 underground stations, situated an average of 30 metres below street level. The fully automated line is driverless and, once fully operational, will provide a 24-hour transport system that guarantees the mobility of 240,000 passengers a day (or 130m a year).
