Intelligent Transportation Systems ─ From Good Practices to Standards

Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) are considered to be powerful tools for sustainable growth of mobility at all levels (local, regional, national, transnational). The book reviews the current Research & Development status, ranging from connected (and autonomous) cars and buses, to real-world large-scale field trials, data analysis and assessment of technological solutions. Standards and normative aspects in the domain of Electronic Fee Collection and Cooperative Systems oriented to probe data collection, safety and non-safety critical applications in vehicular networks, are studied.

The book provides the rational, perspectives, and technical issues for the implementation of ITS solutions in a genuine inter-modal scenario, taking the example of a Mediterranean seaport, actively involved in testing and validation of ITS standards. The novelty of this book is that it covers R&D, standards, and pilots, all under one cover. Rather than stressing the novelty in ICT, the authors have presented the need for system-level integration, assessment of existing (standard) solutions, and piloting experiments in real-world industrial scenarios.

Paolo Pagano, Ph.D., is a Network of Embedded Systems area leader for the National Laboratory of Photonic Networks - CNIT, Pisa, Italy.